Kowloon walled city 九龍城砦

The strange building draws interest. Buildings are piled up like a beehive. The name is Kowloon Walled City. They are illegally buildings. The fort and local branches of the Qing dynasty were located in the about 150 years before Kowloon peninsula. And China claimed that this land had potential private right after World War II. So, it became the lawless area over which Britain and the Hong Kong government do not reign. The building which disregarded the building law was built without the crevice one after another. It became the best hiding place of the mainland China refugees, illegal immigrants, and offenders. 40,000 people live there now. Inside is like an underground maze,and called the Eastern Kasbah. The 1960s of the golden age were the fearful place where the wrong of all Hong Kongs, such as a drug, prostitution, and violence, exists. I visited ten years ago at first time. I repeated enter and escape, and needed courage to search an inside. 3 and 4 years after, KowloonWalledCity which symbolizes the history of Hong Kong will be vacant lot. This is the gun of the Qing dynasty era of the proof which was a fort a long time ago. The inside of labyrinthine has many small factories. This is the factory of food processing. Illegal immigrant can work without ID. Owner: Tax will be paid from now on, since it is illegal trade. Journalist: Was the next place decided? Owner: Waiting for the arrangement of the government. Owner: Since the house rent is cheap, I want to borrow as it is. The price is 44 dollars in one-room 13sqft, and lives on average four persons. The number of residents became clear recently. It is because residents raised their hand on the compensation problem of demolition. The town which tells the history and fate of Hong Kong soon disappears.