"Heyri received no government subsidy at all, " says Lee Sang, the Art Valley's secretary general.

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"As a landscape photographer, I fell it love with it, " he says of Heyri.

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Since construction began in 2001, many of South Korea's composers, painters, sculptors and intellectuals have made Heyri, not Seoul, their home.

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Today Heyri makes for a pleasant escape from the hustle and bustle of Seoul, and walking through the village is like being transported to the pages of an architectural magazine.

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The initial idea for Heyri was developed in 1995 by a Seoul-based arts collective that wanted a place in the countryside where its 380 members could reside and create art as a refuge from the big city.

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Is Heyri the creature of government subsidies?

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Drive the Freedom Highway 30 miles north from South Korea's capital, Seoul, and urban high-rises soon give way to razor wire, lookout posts, Ray-Banned soldiers and the verdant, rolling hills that shelter Heyri Art Valley: over 120 architect-designed homes, studios and public buildings 10 miles shy of the dmz.

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