The 1953 Korean Armistice Agreement created two villages in the DMZ. On the south side is Daeseong-dong, less than 1km from Panmunjeom , where around 200 people live in modern houses with high-speed internet connections and earn a tax-free annual income of over US$80,000 from their 7-hectare farms. There’s an 11pm curfew, and soldiers stand guard while the villagers work in the rice fields or tend their ginseng plants.
