According to Cambodia’s Mirror, it’s estimated that there are about 4,000 Koreans living in Cambodia. Not surprisingly, South Korea becomes one of the largest foreign investors in the Kingdom after China.

In a recent blog post (Observations and Reflection from Korea – Sunday, 1.11.2009) by Norbert Klein, a long-time expatriate, the Cambodian capital is about to lose its Boeng Kak Lake, largely to contributed to the city development.

And there are not only technicality related disruptions. I took the following picture of the Boeng Kak Lake in Phnom Penh some years ago, leaving for Bangkok. Many big cities around the world maintain their lakes or rivers, or even create artificial ones. The Phnom Penh administration is destroying what there is – filling about 90 % of the lake with sand for higher level business, also displacing about 4,000 families.

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