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Background: Korea was an independent kingdom under Chinese suzerainty for most of the past millennium. Following its victory in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Japan occupied Korea; five years later it formally annexed the entire peninsula. After World War II, a republic was set up in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula while a Communist-style government was installed in the north. During the Korean War (1950-53), US and other UN forces intervened to defend South Korea from North Korean attacks supported by the Chinese. An armistice was signed in 1953, splitting the peninsula along a demilitarized zone at about the 38th parallel. Thereafter, South Korea achieved rapid economic growth with per capita income rising to roughly 14 times the level of North Korea. In 1987, South Korean voters elected ROH Tae-woo to the presidency, ending 26 years of military dictatorships. South Korea today is a fully functioning modern democracy. In June 2000, a historic first North-South summit took place between the South's President KIM Tae-chung and the North's leader KIM Jong Il.




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All Saints' Church of the Electric Wow
All Saints' Church of the Electric Wow
That's not really what it's called, but if I could name it, that's what I'd call it.
Today I had to bid farewell to the Hongs. I really enjoyed my two days with their family. But now it's time for the next adventure- dorm life on Yonsei's campus! Of course, I'm on the top floor. And there's no elevator. Luckily Chairman Hong and his driver carried my bag up the stairs for me. (When it's time to leave I'll just chuck it out the window.) I had trouble opening my door at first, and then it opened itself! I have a Korean roommate! Yay! Her name is Minyoung, and we've spoken maybe 10 sentences to each other so [View Full Entry]

warpgirl - Sarah Howe | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 4th 2009 | 56 Views | [diary=425143]

Sinchon
Angel-in-Us Coffee

By dmcoe1975
August 3rd 2009
Lost my Seoul Asia » South Korea » Seoul
After 6 weeks in Ho Chi Minh City it was time to bid a tearful farewell and head to Seoul (don't worry, I will be back in Vietnam very soon). The Korean Air flight across was good, I slept most of the way and got a free upgrade to business class. I was met at the airport by the hotel transfer and quickly taken to my apartment in Fraser Place, my home for the week ahead. The things I quickly noticed was how quiet Seoul was compared to Ho Chi Minh City. No motor bikes, no street vendors, no offers of [View Full Entry]

dmcoe1975 - Darren Coe | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 8th 2009 | 73 Views | [diary=426433]

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Part of the Hong family
Part of the Hong family
Sung Mo is taking the picture.
Well, not always strangers. But I definitely was glad of all the help I received when I first arrived in Seoul. I think I would still be stuck at the airport otherwise. I had a good flight all in all- seriously, if you can't go first class, at least get an aisle seat I say. I watched two movies and tried to sleep during the "night"- not too successful. I was all over that bibimbap lunch they served, but the dinner/second meal was a choice between rubber chicken or pasta. I went with pasta. I also tried hard not to wolf [View Full Entry]

warpgirl - Sarah Howe | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 4th 2009 | 101 Views | [diary=425131]

Outlook hazy
Namdaemun Market
Home Cooking!

By Santandrea
July 29th 2009
Soap Box Asia » South Korea » Seoul
Mt. Quandry
Mt. Quandry
Possum and I on top of Mt. Quandry, what a long, long day.
Hello all, this is not a travel blog, but an opportunity for me to relay some info to y'all. Yesterday I read an article in "The Seoul Times" about dogs I'm sure many of you know how much I love dogs and miss my companion Possum, anyway this article is about how dogs are used for meat here in South Korea and the way they are "put down" that is about as nice a way I can put it. I encourage all my dog loving friends/family, Mom & Dad, Lori, Casey, Judy, Ross, Ignacio & Dinah, Leighanna, and Chris whom Possum [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 29th 2009 | 41 Views | [diary=423252]

Christmas
Fall
Fall

By Hannabee
July 29th 2009
Completing Ceremony Asia » South Korea » Seoul
Last days in Kyung Hee University and Completing Ceremony in the Crown Hall Building [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 30th 2009 | 16 Views | [diary=423869]

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I took a very short trip to Seoul (my first time) and took a few photos. It was a fast trip with the sole (/"Seoul" HA!) purpose of renewing my passport. My advice if traveling through Seoul: DO NOT DRIVE!! The first bit of the trip was pretty miserable. The GPS unit in my car broke about halfway there (very convenient timing) and I had only one map in a little tourist book measuring around 6" x 10" to map out a city with over 10 million people. Not much help. It took around 6 hours to drive there from where [View Full Entry]

griffster - Michael | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 28th 2009 | 50 Views | [diary=422944]

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I happened to be browsing the Weezer website one day and noticed they had a tour date to play in the Seoul area. After digging a little more, I realized it wasn't just a Weezer show, but an entire three day rock festival! I've really missed going to live shows here, so naturally I immediately wrote all my friends here to start planning a trip. We got our tickets, rented and borrowed tents and piled into my car to head up to the festival grounds. It was held at a ski resort, to a lot of facilities were already there. This [View Full Entry]

griffster - Michael | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 28th 2009 | 71 Views | [diary=423004]

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Intensity in Tent City
In tents!

By do t
July 28th 2009
mong mong~~ Asia » South Korea » Seoul » Seodaemun-gu
Man that was a terrible paper. So terrible. I stayed up until ~0700 writing it and then went down to the lounge to print it out. I COULDN'T! what the heck, right? So the way it works here is there's this 'username/password' you need to make in order to print with these computers. And then you have to deposit money into the account so that it can subtract from there. Anyhow, it was really lame and wouldnt let me print and i couldnt figure it out because the error messages that popped up were in korean and no one was up [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 28th 2009 | 26 Views | [diary=423063]


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Published: July 30th 2009 | 16 Views | [diary=423861]

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By do t
July 27th 2009
Last full week Asia » South Korea » Seoul » Seodaemun-gu » Sinchon
Actually woke up for class today. David woke me up. Psych, bleh. Art History, Prof got pretty pissed when a girl put her head down during 'discussion' time. There's usually an awkward silence when nobody knows what to discuss of the art she puts up. and she yelled at us for wasting time, say that we're being graded for it. pretty serious. Had lunch w/ stella and then tried to read up on Romans so I could write my paper. didn't get much done. Korean class. First hour, a bunch of people were missing. maybe 4-5 people. doesnt sound like many, [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 27th 2009 | 26 Views | [diary=422701]