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Show BELIEVE IN OLD PROPHECY Koreans Flock to Secure Holdinga (ln What They Are Satisfied Is to Be Great City. Kelyong, the lonely mountain of Korea, experienced a rcnl-estute boom that made the oil-town promoter pale Into significance. On a tiny piece of land on the mountain side were en-camped en-camped 2,502 persons, formlne 518 households, while hundreds more were gathered at the base, bidding high prices for the privilege of buying a bit of land among the favored. The Korean prophet. Chyong Knm, whose writings have been preserved In the ancestral mausoleum of the onetime one-time Imperial family of Korea, long ego phophe8led that Mount Kelyong would be chosen as the religious center cen-ter of the sect which he founded and as the future capital and metropolis of the peninsula. Ills 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 be one of the greatest cities of the world and that they are "getting In on the ground floor." |