These small beacons of hope were supposed to ... m living in this kind of village," she says. To reach Freedom Village, known in Korean as Taesung, we have to pass through several checkpoints.

Bukchon Village occupies the hilly neighborhood between ... the largest collection of privately owned hanoks, or traditional Korean homes with tiled roofs and stone floors, in Seoul.

Coffee drinkers can sip their beverages and view a quiet North Korean mountain village from a Starbucks shop at a South Korean border observatory. SEOUL, South Korea — Coffee drinkers can sip ...