李兴洙是一名桃农，亲历了韩国惊人的经济崛起，但从该国西南部的位置来看，这种转变难以察觉。
Lee Heung Soo, a peach farmer, has lived through South Korea’s extraordinary economic rise, but the transformation is hard to see from his vantage point in the country’s southwest.
这位74岁的老人在光州市附近的军用机场和空军基地上空，长期伴随着战斗机起降的轰鸣声，他怀疑这损害了他的听力。即使韩国其他地区飞速工业化，军事存在也让开发商望而却步。
The 74-year-old grew up with the constant roar of fighter jets overhead as they flew in and out of a nearby military airport and air base in the city of Gwangju, which he suspects damaged his hearing. The military presence had kept developers away even as the rest of South Korea industrialized at breakneck speed.“I thought it would remain an air base forever,” he said as fighter jets took off and landed.
“我以为这里永远是个空军基地，”他在战斗机起降时说，“从未想过会有这样的事情来到这里。”
“I never imagined anything like this would come here.”