This tiny apartment costs $7 a month. Scoring one is like winning the lottery Kim Do-yeon, a new tenant for the $7 apartment for youths, stands inside her room in Dongjak district in Seoul.

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“I’m concerned that apartments have made South Koreans’ lifestyles too similar,” said Maing Pil-soo, an architect and urban planning professor at Seoul National University.