Songpa-gu's parents do not train for ironman competitions. They live them. The daily triathlon begins with the swim — navigating the human current of 8 AM school drop-off traffic through Jamsil's congested school zones. The bike leg follows: pedaling between hagwon locations on electric bicycles loaded with supplementary study materials that sh

Electroplating is wet work. The workers in Ansan's Banwol plating district spend their shifts elbow-deep in chemical baths — chromium, zinc, nickel solutions maintained at temperatures between 40 and 65 degrees Celsius — dipping, rotating, and extracting metal components on racks that weigh between 8 and 30 kilograms depending on the substrat