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

[Purplecat]

This reminds me of a previous article, and my comment on it can just stay the same:

Inside Hong Kong's insanely cramped and illegal "coffin homes"

Agreed. This article is also something to keep in mind every time we have an article about minimal living, tiny houses, and the difficulties faced by people who want to build and live “small”. This is the reason why those laws are in place. This is why there are rules regarding minimum floorspace and minimum facilities for a liveable building. Because if we didn’t have those standards, and / or they weren’t enforced, this is where people would end up. Squeezed slowly but inexorably into unaffo…