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German reunification once gave South Koreans hope. But that hope has faded

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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 – 3.7 metres (12 feet) wide, about as tall and 38cm (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…



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