Discovering my hometown in Korea

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I was born in South Korea and this is my first time back since I was 3-months old. Specifically, I was born at a military hospital in the Seoul district of Yongsan. Several days later, my parents took a taxi south to a small town called Anyang, where they lived until we all flew to the United States. Yesterday, I traveled from Seoul, where I am staying for the week, down to Anyang. I went searching for the actual neighborhood where I lived those first weeks of my life. Obviously, I can't remember anything, but my father gave me some clues to follow. I almost gave up after several hours because I was given conflicting information from local residents who were old enough to remember what Anyang was like a long time ago. But I decided to try one last place an old man suggested (his wife strongly disputed him and sent me off in the wrong direction for a while). I discovered that Anyang has changed tremendously, as has Korea.