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Young customers flock to a bakery cafe at a site that was once a small handbag factory. (Photo by Kotaro Hosokawa)

KOTARO HOSOKAWA, Nikkei staff writer

SEOUL -- After passing through an alley lined with small, urban factories and reverberating with the sound of cutting machinery at work, a large luxury Dior store suddenly appears.

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