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Show BELIEVE IN OLD PROPHECY Koreans Flock to Secure Holdings in What They Are Satisfied Is to Ee Great City. Kelyong, the lonely mounluin of Korea, experienced a real-estate boom that made the oil-town promoter pale into insignificance. On a liny piece of hind on the mountain side were encamped en-camped 2,562 persons, forming 518 households, while hundreds more were gathered at the base, bidding high prices for the privilege of buying a bit of land ajiiong the favored. The Korean prophet, Cbyong Knm, whose writings have been preserved in the ancestral mausoleum of the onetime one-time imperial family of Korea, long ago phophesied that Mount Keiyong would be chosen as the religious center cen-ter of the sect which be founded and as the future capital and metropolis of the peninsula. His prophecy has recently been given great publicity, it is reported, and thousands of Koreans are flocking to the mountain, firm in their belief that it is to he one of the greatest cities of the world and that they are "getting in on the ground floor." |