In the mid-18th century, a German philosopher Johann Gottfried von Herder wrote, "Everyone loves his own country, customs, language, wife, children, not because they are the best in the world, but ...

Kim Youn-mi, 29, is now helping her parent as a cashier at a small, family-run cafe in Seoul after closing her own, which she opened after the end of the COVID-19 pandemic but shut down about a year ...