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After expanding after the pandemic, payrolls at manufacturing firms have shrunk this year, shedding 12,000 jobs last month alone.

Many of the residents and visitors were expected to be Chinese citizens, but the country’s government implemented tighter controls on money leaving the country in 2019 and the pool of potential condo buyers shrunk.

Over the last couple of months, as immigration raids became a part of daily life, the couple’s world had slowly shrunk.

The investigative staff, which leads the in-depth probes into insurance practices, has shrunk by nearly 40%, according to current and former employees.

But years of migration to cities have shrunk families and turned places like Seoul into sprawling metropolises.