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800 yrs after Vietnamese prince's arrival, a Korean county tries to revive historic ties

· By Lee Seung-ku
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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…

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