800 yrs after Vietnamese prince's arrival, a Korean county tries to revive historic ties
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Quick summary- 1They had come to commemorate an unlikely historical connection: The
- 2Some 800 people gathered Saturday at Chunghyodang, a centuries-old building tucked away in the mountains of eastern South Korea, where conversations could be h…
Some 800 people gathered Saturday at Chunghyodang, a centuries-old building tucked away in the mountains of eastern South Korea, where conversations could be heard in Korean, Vietnamese and occasionally English. They had come to commemorate an unlikely historical connection: The arrival of a Vietnamese prince on the Korean Peninsula 800 years ago and the Korean clan descended from him. “We are gathered here to retrace the historic relationship between Korea and Vietnam that spans over 800 years,
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