"I always wanted to return," said Kim, 63. "There's a certain stress and sorrow that comes from living away from home for so long." This expresses the emotional burden many immigrants feel after a prolonged stay abroad.
The enclave points to a growing immigration trend: In the decades since South Koreans immigrated en masse to the United States in search of better livelihoods, many are now coming back to retire amid the comforts of home.
They are joined by reverse migrants of a younger, different mold: American-born Koreans who, disillusioned with life in the U.S., are now seeking new ones in the country their parents left behind.
But in South Korea, those joys are complicated by new questions of belonging.
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