POCHEON, South Korea: “It’s a world of lawlessness,” Reverend Kim Dal-sung muttered over the phone as he drove his tiny KIA over narrow dirt paths zigzagging through greenhouses made of plastic sheets and tubes.
In the bleak landscape of dull blue and grey in Pocheon, a town near South Korea’s ...
Tuesday 13 April 2021
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