Take a Round-the-World Trip at the Borderless Village in Ansan

The Borderless Village is located in Ansan where foreign residents gather.

The area is called ‘Ansan Multicultural Village’ as shown by the signage along the street. With the number of immigrant workers, who came from more than 60 countries to work at industrial complexes in Ansan, surpassing 30,000, the Korean government designated the area as a “Special Multicultural Village Zone” in May 2009.

Most of the pedestrians and employees of stores are foreigners, and many signboards are written in foreign languages, resembling city streets in China or elsewhere in Southeast Asian countries.

Chinese stores are prevalent on the street, but signage in other languages including Urdu, Hindi, Vietnamese, and Russian can also be easily spotted.

There is a large park located in the center of the market where the Chinese kick around a shuttlecock.

In addition, the only Uzbek café is located in the market with a signboard that says ‘café’ in Uzbek. Visitors who feel homesick are already sitting at the tables.

A restaurant on the 2^nd floor of a building located at the intersection at the market center serves Indian and Nepalese dishes for lunch. The interior design of the restaurant is unique; the foreign owner who takes orders speaks Korean quite well.

We ordered some Indian dishes including samosa—which is spiced potato-stuffed vegetable pastries—as well as saffron rice, lamb curry (hot and mild), tandoori chicken, lassi, and naan. Lassi, an Indian yogurt, is made of homemade yogurt, ice, and syrup that make the drink moderately sweet and really good.

At last, oven-baked naan bread was served to be dipped into curry. The place was good for enjoying an exotic atmosphere and foods at inexpensive prices.

The Borderless Village can be found at exit 2 of Ansan Station on Line 4. Why don’t you travel to a global place near the capital area where you can taste a variety of international cuisines and experience foreign cultures on a warm spring day?

 [2017 Gyeonggi Social Rocker Park Eun-jeong]