Banks are loath to accept buildings with these junior leases, known as hak pakai, as collateral for mortgages.
Dozens, even hundreds, of couples, in off-the-peg white dresses and dark suits, would parade before him, across lurid carpets and through banks of gladioli, to be soberly scattered with confetti by their high-crowned True Father and their equally unsmiling True Mother, Hak Ja Han.
"Eighty per cent of these could have been avoided if necessary safety measures had been taken," fumed Mahmut Arslan, chairman of the pro-Islamic Hak Is workers' confederation.
One example from the late 1990s is "Hak lae phukphan" ("Love and Ties") by the prolific Duangsai Luangphasi.
When it collapsed a year later, he escaped to northern provinces administered by the Pathet Lao and its political wing, the Neo Lao Hak Xat, and resumed the Laotian civil war.
In 1956 a legal political wing, the Lao Patriotic Front (Neo Lao Hak Xat), was founded and participated in several coalition governments.
Variations on the themes of arranged marriage and thwarted love continued to be popular; the twist in Hak Chhay Hok's best-selling O phsaen maranah (1965; "The Fatal Smoke") is that the rich heroine happily goes along with her parents' choice, jilting the poor student who had earlier saved her life; he then falls sick, fails his exams, and dies.
By then, I was in graduate school and reading a whole other library, from Stéphane Mallarmé to Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, poets who were indicating to me that there might be limits to the power of language, but that resistance might come from using language differently.
Park Sang Hak, who runs Free North Korea, the organization behind the plan, is, according to the Hollywood Reporter, "a former government propagandist who escaped to South Korea".
Once the immigrants were in the country, Mr. Hak, Mr. Wen and Ms. Yang helped them stay, according to court documents.
