Seorae Village

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Seorae Village
Hangul:
서래마을
Hanja:
西來마을
Revised Romanization: Seorae Ma-eul
McCune-Reischauer: Sŏrae Maŭl

Seorae Village, sometimes nicknamed "Montmartre" due to its hilltop location, is a small French enclave in Banpo-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul, South Korea. It is home to about 560 French people, roughly 40% of the ethnic French community in South Korea. Most of them are employees of French corporations doing business in the country. The majority (370) of the French population is actually children.

The village began to form here in 1985, with the movement of L'Ecole Francaise de Seoul to the area. The school, the city's only French international school, had formerly been located just north of the Han River in Hannam-dong, a large international neighborhood. French people with children followed, as did bakeries and wine shops.

The village is the site of a 20,000 m² park, "Montmartre Park," which is often the site of public events for foreigners. It is near Express Bus Terminal Station on Seoul Subway Line 3.

In July 2006, the village gained sudden prominence when the bodies of two dead babies were discovered in a house there. Subsequent police investigation found that the babies were the children of the house's owner and his wife.

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