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Show BUYING LAND IN KOREA. Business Transaction Into Which Tact Enters Largely. Land buy Ins in Korea Is a process which calls for both time and patience. A Japanese Investigator who has been making Inquiries nn the subject has found that tho price nt which land may be procured differs greatly with the Hklll of tho purchaser. Any hasty attempt to buy hurts tho feelings of tho owner, and creates opposition. Trio best plan Is to select tho district on which one's fancy rests, and either settle quietly down thero or send an agent to do so instead, letting it bo known In it general sort of way that ono is disposed to buy. Then tho Koreans, ulio class transactions in land in the same category with tho sale or puic'-asu of movablo chattels that Is to say, as n mere means of procuring or spending money will of themselves coma and offer to sell. Then, by the exerclso of a llttlo patience, pa-tience, a considerable tract may bo ory cheaply acquired In a few yearB. |