Chinanews, Beijing, November 17 – Everyday when Song Qing gets back to Wangjing, the community where he lives in Beijing, she always feels that she is in South Korea. The signboards of the shops, stores and restaurants are written in Korean, and many people around talk in fluent Korean. “It's just like living in Seoul,”said Song.

 

A Korean who can not speak a word in Chinese can live without any difficulties in Wangjing. There are Korean shop assistants in most shops, family hotels run by Koreans (150 to 200 yuan a day, with 3 meals and laundry service), Korean schools, Korean hospitals, Korean spas, etc, and all are located within a 10-minute walk. Korean channels are also available on the local wired television.

 

Koreans own more than 70% of apartments in the West Garden in Wangjing, and they have begun to occupy the apartments nearby, too. In fact, these apartments are perhaps the first investment of many Koreans in China. It only cost some 500 thousand yuan for one apartment several years ago, but now it costs at least 1.5 million yuan.

 

“Wangjing to Koreans in Beijing is just like the Chinatown to Chinese in New York,”said a Korean. “Beijing is much more convenient than Seoul in every aspect, except air pollution and traffic jam.”