Posted by snow The deeper motive may be that the group is interested in reclaiming land that belonged to Kojong, Princess Haewon's grandfather. I assume the land was confiscated by the Japanese, and no compensation ever offered. Likely it's pretty valuable land by now. This caught my wife's attention, because of course her clan has some similar losses, but land disputes within a family can be quite bitter.
on 1/10/2006, 23:03:52, in reply to "So what's the point?"
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My wife picked up a couple of interesting items from the Korean language accounts. First, it seems Princess Haewon has been living "like a beggar, in a near-slum", so her relatives got together to help her out and did this ceremony for her to recoginize her. A more unposed photo in one of the Korean papers shows her seated on the "dragon throne', but with a couple of younger relatives, and all of them wiping away tears. 22
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