Where smoke once rose, the scent of culture now lingers – The Story of Suwon 111CM In the heart of Jeongja-dong, Suwon, there once stood a massive tobacco factory producing billions of cigarettes every year. This was the Suwon Tobacco Factory , established in 1971 by the Korea Tobacco & Ginseng Corporation. The site manufactured well-known Korean brands like This , 88 , Lilac , and Hanrasan . But in 2003, as automation took over and smoking rates declined, the factory closed its doors. For nearly two decades, the space sat abandoned, a hollow shell of its industrial past. 🌱 A Seed of Culture in a Forgotten Place Nearly a generation later, life returned to the site. Rather than demolishing the historic space, the City of Suwon chose to preserve its architectural structure and reinvent it as a community hub: 111CM . The name '111CM' combines its lot number – Jeongja-dong 111 – with the word Community , symbolizing both its past and its new social mission. 🏭 ...