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My crazy-packed end-of-October weekend started off with an early trip to the Dongbu Intercity Bus Terminal in Daejeon Saturday morning. Since our first tour (Chungju) with Adventure Korea left from Seoul, it didn't make sense to meet them in Seoul first thing Saturday as the city of Chungju was closer to Daejeon. It took 1.5hrs to get to Chungju from Daejeon. Chungju is a city in North Chungcheong province, South Korea. Its flower is the Chrysanthemum, its bird is the Mandarin Duck, and its tree is the Apple Tree. Did you know? Chungju is famous for its production of apples. The [View Full Entry]

Dingles - Jessica Leong | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 13th 2009 | 32 Views | [diary=453020]

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Hi everyone! I hope you are all well and trying to enjoy the summer despite the unfortunate bout of Toronto weather I heard about. So about two weeks ago Jonathan and I went to an EPIK reunion. It was held in Seoul at the Olympic Parktel. Olympic hotels are a little creepy minus the Olympics. We went to a performance called Jump. Its was a comedy combined with martial arts. At one point they brought Jonathan on stage and made him do some somersaults and such. I tried to film it but I was asked to stop immediately for some reason. [View Full Entry]

Wanks - Tessy Anne | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 30th 2009 | 67 Views | [diary=423418]

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Summer is in full swing and what better way to enjoy some sun than at the beach. Annually Boryeong, some two and a half hours by train South of Seoul, holds a mud fest. Yes, an excuse for just about every westerner in South Korea to hit the beach and get silly and dirty....it’s a recipe for fun! 7:40 am, excitement at an all time high and time to taxi to the train station. We got lucky that our seasoned mud festing mates organised us train tickets so that we weren’t subjected to a gruelling 6 hour bus ride! Getting to [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 25th 2009 | 116 Views | [diary=422021]

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Well this is the third year that we have gone to the "Boryeong - Mud Festival", last year I did not take any pictures because when we went a Typhoon hit the cost. This year it rained so hard the first weekend, it is monsoon season now, so we went on the last weekend, although it did not rain the entire day, it was very very windy. But it was still very fun seeing everybody covered in mud we also ate lunch at our favorite restaurant, it is a shell fish joint with a hole in the middle of your table [View Full Entry]

Santandrea - Santandreas | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 20th 2009 | 68 Views | [diary=420176]

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Months ago, things started popping up on facebook like, “Korean Mudfestival 1 friend is a fan.” More recently I’ve had conversations like, “Do you know mud festival? Very famous in Korea.” Even more importantly, sandwiched between Turkey’s Camel Wrestling Festival and the UK’s Cheese Rolling Festival, the Boryeong Mud Festival ranks 3rd on a London newspaper’s list of the [url= http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/festivalsandevents/5188191/The-worlds-weirdest-festivals.html?image=2] ‘World’s Weirdest Festivals.’ I’m a [View Full Entry]

joncasssouthkorea - Jon Wick | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 14th 2009 | 226 Views | [diary=418419]

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Yeah... get in there

By Wanks
June 18th 2009
Chilgapsan Asia » South Korea » Chungcheongnam-do
Hi! Here are a couple pics from our hike a couple weeks ago. I thought I'd put them up while I was at it. I hope you enjoy! [View Full Entry]

Wanks - Tessy Anne | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 18th 2009 | 28 Views | [diary=409745]

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Hello again! So about a month ago Jonathan and I were taken to a national park on the coast of our province, Chungnam-do by Suk and Mi wa (Jonathan’s co teacher and old co- teacher, who we are now referring to as our Korean family). We had a jam packed day of fun stuff. We left at the ungodly hour of 6 am in order to beat the rush to this marine national park. The park was hosting a flower festival and it was all the rage. We got there at 8 and it was pretty busy. There were line ups [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 17th 2009 | 61 Views | [diary=409379]

Abandoned School
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By Wanks
June 17th 2009
Gym Day Asia » South Korea » Chungcheongnam-do
Hello!! So I have been pretty lazy on the blog front. I feel as if I have more photos than stories. Perhaps the photos will jog a story or two. So check out my photos for details. Gym day was tons o’fun. No class and loads of fun things to watch. I attached a video of a dance the grade 3’s and 4’s put on. The teacher who choreographed the routine is a good friend. You can see her in the bottom left of the video directing the kids. There was a grade 6 race where they had to pick up [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 17th 2009 | 37 Views | [diary=409353]

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Mr. Im (love this guy)

Hello Hello. Well it looks like I better get cracking! It’s been a while since I last wrote and I seem to have accumulated so many photos over the past two months that I’m trying to establish the chronology of events….Ah yeh Nonsan Dalgi Chuktche. Easter weekend, it’s so weird being in a country that has absolutely no Easter. I mean how on earth can you celebrate Christmas and no Easter that’s just totally not right, anyhow that was the case here in the Republic, not a single acknowledgment of the event, in fact not even a retailers acknowledgment so not [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 15th 2009 | 82 Views | [diary=408726]

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Over the long weekend in early May we decided to spend our time island hopping in Chungcheongnam-do province. We started our trek on Anmyeondo, the largest of the islands. One of my students had written a journal about a beautiful flower festival that was happening on the island so we decided to check it out. "Floritopia 2009" turned out to be a collection of different flower displays and a few showcases of flowers from around the world. All in all, Flowertopia was just like strolling through a public park back in Canada. Only with a few thousand of our closest friends. [View Full Entry]

Maddogstobbe - Mad & Jeff | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 21st 2009 | 352 Views | [diary=400670]

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