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Seoul food

Getting advice or just eating on the street is no problem in the capital of South Korea, even when temperatures drop below zero.

Swiss photographers Stéphanie Borcard und Nicolas Metraux were impressed how life and business went on despite chilling winter conditions. A tent, a few plastic tarpaulins and a couple of gas heaters are all it takes to set up a chapel, a fortune teller’s table or a Kimchi restaurant and get working.

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