Koreans are strongly attached to their hometowns. Even after living in another place for a long time, Korean people never forget their hometowns and have a profound nostalgia toward them. The hometown is a point of reference, a place to which a person returns repeatedly, whether physically or spiritually.

However, medieval theologian Hugh of St. Victor wrote, "The tender soul has fixed his love on one spot in the world; the strong has extended his love to all places; the perfect man has extinguished his."

We do not need to fix our love on one spot only, especially in this age of globalization, when the world has become a "global village." As global citizens, we can have more than one hometown.

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