Napoleon's Bicorne Is Auctioned That Was Dropped at Waterloo

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Aurelien Breeden, At $400,000 in Auction, a Felt Bicorn for the Ages; A hat believed to have been dropped at Waterloo by Napoleon Bonaparte. New York Times, June 10, 2018.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/ ... ction-waterloo.html

Note:
(a)
(i) bicorn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicorn
(in geometry)
(ii) bicorne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicorn
(hat; widely adopted in the 1790s)

Compare tricorne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricorne
(b) bcorne (n; French, from Latin bicornis two-horned, from bi- + [noun neuter] cornu horn))

(b) "The hat is one of about 120 two-cornered military dress hats that Napoleon was said to have worn during his rule between 1799 and 1815 * * * Historians have identified only 19 remaining hats, most of them now in museums. At an auction in 2014, the South Korean founder and chairman of the Harim food conglomerate bought one for more than $2 million — about five times the asking price."

(c)  
(i) Founded by Kim Hong-kuk as Hwangdeung Farm in Iksan 益山市
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iksan
(map)
, Harim Co, Ltd, now based in Seoul,  is all about chickens -- raising and eating them.
(ii) From Poultry Farmers to Conglomerate Chiefs. Korea Herald, Jan 19, 2017.
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170119000624

first six consecutive paragraphs:

"When poultry farming was a promising business in the mid-1970s, there were two high school students in the Jeolla provinces showing their business acumen from an early age.

"One was Kim Hong-kuk, a student of Iri 裡里 [a neighborhood in Iksan] Agricultural High School in Iksan-si, North Jeolla Province 全羅北道. Born in 1957, Kim's grandmother bought him 10 chicks when he turned 11. He sold the chickens once they grew up, and used the profit to buy more chicks. By 1975, he owned over 1,000 chickens -- and was also in his first year of high school.

"And there was Woo Oh-hyun, who was a student at Gwangju Commercial High School in South Jeolla Province.

"Born in 1953, Woo was in the third year of high school in 1971 when he started poultry farming. Later, he became acquainted with Kim Hong-kuk and with a mutual understanding they jointly operated the poultry farm, making large profits every year. They ran the farming business together until 1978, when Woo sold the business to move onto the construction industry.

"Years later, the two former partners went on to create their own conglomerates.

"Woo, now 64, has founded Samra Midas Group, while Kim Hong-kuk, 60, became CEO of Harim Group.

* I fail to find hanja 漢字 for the rest of proper names.