Daeseong-dong, the only civilian residential area in the South Korean half of the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas, had long been known as "an island on land" due to its isolated location.The village is only about 400 meters from the border with North Korea, and its residents, many of whom engage in farming, had to be accompanied by soldiers whenever they needed to go to a water pump station to control the irrigation of their land.But when a next-generation mobile network service reached the so-called Freedom Village in June, it turned into a "smart village" with "smart farms" tha…READ FULL ARTICLE
