Behind the Glitz

I went to Korea with my family a while back. There were so many places to shop and see. But depending on the age group of the places we visited, the people we encountered were quite different. When I took the subway to Dongdaemun, it was packed with elderly people. But in Sinsa-dong, it was full of trendy young people. However, the most shocking sight was at a Seoul subway station. There, I saw a huge number of homeless people gathered in one corner, building makeshift shelters with cardboard boxes. Visually, there must have been around a hundred of them. It made me feel like this was a place with the greatest wealth disparity. Perhaps the prosperity is just on the surface, and behind it lie many impoverished people who need more care.