What it's like in a "goshiwon", a 50-square-foot Seoul microapartment

Seoul has sky-high real-estate prices, rising inequity, and incredibly important "goshi" tests that determine admittance to valued jobs in law or civil service.

Students want somewhere to retreat for months to study, but since land is at a premium, there's a big market for "goshiwon", teensy apartments that fit a single human body and not much elsetypically about 50 square feet, "almost a tenth of a North American studio apartment". — Read the rest