A rocket launch and a night at Versailles: How Korean superrich spend their holidays

Next Wednesday, a group of Korean travelers will sit inside a yurt on the Kazakh steppe and watch a rocket leave the ground. The seat, located at a safe distance from the launch pad, costs 28 million won, or roughly $20,600, per person. The seven-day Kazakhstan itinerary, sold by Modetour, is built around the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It covers the Gagarin launch pad, the assembly and fueling complex where the Buran space shuttle is stored, a test stand displaying the Energia-M rocket and an aerospac