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Between 1945 and 1951, some one million residents
of North Korean fled to South Korea. Among them were landowners, businessmen,
middle-class intelligentsia, pro-Japanese collaborators, religionists, and
foreigners.
They left home taking only what they could
carry - a small suitcase or a sack. Everything else was left behind.
It is true that many (what % - I don't know) homes and business properties were
bombed out during the Korean War and those that survived, the communist cadres
took over.
Years back, North Korea allowed in a handful
of the former property owners: and, believe it or not, they bad-mouthed the
current occupants of their ancestral homes and caused some uneasy
unhappiness in Pyongyang and the big shots there decided - 'no more
reactionaries'.
ysk
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