Courbefy is a hamlet in the Bussière-Galant commune in the Haute-Vienne department of the Limousin region in western France.On an auction on 21 May 2012, the abandoned village was bought by Yoo Byung-eun for €520,000 (US$663,000). Yoo had seen it on CNN, and wanted to set up an "environmental, artistic and cultural" project in the village.