High-rise buildings tower in the background over Guryong, a shantytown near the affluent Gangnam district in Seoul, South Korea. Guryong is a sprawling slum of plywood and tarpaulin shacks that were occupied in 1988 by squatters who were evicted from other areas in the push to beautify Seoul as it prepared to host the Olympic Games. More than 2,000 residents live there in poverty. Kim Jae-Hwan / Agence France-Presse