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Show BELIEVE IM OLD PROPHECY Koreans Flock to Secure Holdings in What They Are Satisfied Is to Be Great City. Kelyong, the lonely mountain of Korea, experienced ;i real-estate boom that made the oil-town promoter pale into insignificance. On a tiny piece of land on the mountain side were encamped en-camped 2.002 persons, forming 518 households, while hundreds more were gathered at the base, bidding high prices for the privilege of buying a bit of lantl iimorig the favored. The Korean prophet. Chyong Kam. 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, linn in their belief that it is to be one of the greatest cities of the world and Unit they are "getting in on the ground floor." |