Fire Burns Makeshift Homes in Shadow of Seoul’s Skyscrapers

Firefighters clean up the site of a fire at Guryong village in Seoul, South Korea, on Jan. 20, 2023. Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo

SEOUL, South Korea—A fire destroyed about 60 makeshift homes in a densely packed neighborhood surrounded by towering high-rise apartments and lavish shopping districts of South Korea’s ultramodern capital Friday.

Firefighters extinguished the flames in Seoul’s Guryong village within about five hours, and no injuries or deaths were reported.