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Sleepy in Songdo, Korea’s Smartest City

The hardest thing about living in an eco-friendly master-planned utopia? Meeting your neighbors.  
The towers of Songdo, which sometimes feels a lot like a sleepy America suburb.
The towers of Songdo, which sometimes feels a lot like a sleepy America suburb.Mikensi Romersa/CityLab
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“I’d [imagined] this would be a well-designed city, that it would be new, modernized, and simple—unlike other cities,” says Lee, who used to work as an English teacher. “So my expectations were high.”