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    The fall of the Berlin Wall once gave South Korea hope. Not anymore

    by Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times Dec 06, 2019 5 minutes

    SEOUL, South Korea - Office workers, delivery boys and teenagers in school uniforms hurried through the rain, past the battered concrete slab without giving it a second glance.

    Hana Lee strode up, stared at it pensively, then snapped a photograph.

    The panel - 12 feet wide, about as tall and 15 inches thick - is a piece of the Berlin Wall. It has been on display in downtown Seoul since 2005, when Germany gifted it to South Korea as a "symbol of hope for the peaceful unification of the Korean peninsula."

    Lee, a 37-year-old South Korean opera singer, was visiting from Germany, where she has lived the last 14 years.

    Pieces of the wall are also exhibited in Germany, but Lee wanted to see it here,

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