“All of this will be leveled to the ground for the golf course,” Hong Chong-gwan, who runs an organic blueberry farm on the foot of a mountain in Naebang-3-ri, told Korea Pro.

Residents of Naebang-3-ri, a tranquil village just an hour’s drive from Seoul, are fighting against the development of a new golf course that threatens to destroy the untouched nature they cherish, jeopardize their water resources and diminish their quality of life.