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...under dictator Park Chung Hee, was racing to build its economy. It wanted monetary reparations to finance highways and steel mills?retrieving artifacts wasn't a high priority. Japan returned only 1,326 items, including 852 books and 438 pieces of pottery. Says You Hong June, director of the Yeungnam University Museum in Taegu: "The Koreans should have got up and left. It is an embarrassment that our government allowed this to happen...
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