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At the hotel in trying to change Pobury
currency I got in conversation with the
Korean guide & he took me to a Korean
theater. We reached this place at 9 P.M.
found it consisted of a ground floor & a gallery
above. The men were in the audience were
separated from the women as in China, the
woman occupying the left side of the ground floor
& the gallery & the men the right side
center. The theater was an opera of sorts. On our
entry a prima donna Korea was singing alone
with the central [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]