Since 1976, Fr John Oh Wooing-jin has built Kkottongnae – the “Flower Village” – into South Korea’s largest social welfare organisation, caring for almost 4,000 homeless people, intellectually and physically disabled folk, alcoholics, elderly people and abandoned babies, writes Noel O’Neill. But disability advocates and human- rights activists are concerned about the isolated warehousing of people with disabilities. Today, community-based residential and rehabilitation services at the local level are regarded as the model. When it was announced that Pope Francis was to visit Kkottongnae, disabled people protested in Seoul. Former residents like Myeong Tja, who suffers from cerebral palsy, told of how she lived for 26 years in an isolated place where her