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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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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 | 73 Views | [diary=423004]

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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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Electronic market, campus pictures [View Full Entry]

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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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By do t
July 26th 2009
Weekend Asia » South Korea » Seoul » Seodaemun-gu » Sinchon
Okay, so as it turns out, Thursday night was not spent at M2. Turns out that we went to the club above M2, lul. Anyhow, Calvin and I spent the 'night' with our new friend Eric Koo from Purdue at a sauna. For some reason we were looking for somewhere to go at 0530 and they decided they wanted to go to a 짐지방jim ji bang(? pardon my spelling/pronunciation). Couldn't find one. So we got into a cab and asked the 아주시(?) to take us to the nearest one. He didn't know where to find one either, so he drove around [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 26th 2009 | 35 Views | [diary=422371]


new friends in Boryeong
new friends in Boryeong
Some fellows I met at the Boryeong Mud Festival
It's best if I describe things in reverse chronological order, i.e. starting from today and working backwords, rather like Merlin. It's about 1:00 a.m. Sunday here in Seoul, I just got back from the Hongik University nightclub district. I've actually been a bit lonely this past week, although I've made friends with several of the Japanese students, and hung out with a few of the Chinese, and met a couple of the westerners, I don't have a regular group of friends to spend Friday and Saturday nights with. Given that I've been here a whole two weeks, that's not exactly [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 25th 2009 | 82 Views | [diary=422069]


By do t
July 24th 2009
Boop di Boop Asia » South Korea » Seoul » Hongik
Herro!! Bam here I'm is with another blog post. I know you've been anxiously waiting but your wait is over. This week has actually been pretty awesome. I slept through pychology again -__-. Monday night I couldn't sleep, so I ended up finishing The Office. I'm all caught up now. David went drinking and came back late(Yeah, monday night. people do that). I was trying to go to sleep but MAN that guy can snore. He usually snores, yes, but the alcohol brought out the beast in his nose. Because holy crap it was like I was sleeping in the same [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 24th 2009 | 26 Views | [diary=421743]


By 1050
July 22nd 2009
Seoulful Soul  Asia » South Korea » Seoul
Seoul. I met up with some Russian friends for a few days. I got a water park fix for the summer (Caribbean Bay) as well as an amusement park visit (Everland). I walked Dongdaemun, Itaewon, Hongik University, Yongsam, Euljiro, Myeong-Dong, and Gangnam. Four Encounters Of Niceness: 1. On my first night I stood on a sidewalk near a metro station and asked the passersby if they knew ny english. I wanted help with directions. After a few attempts I got a kid who spoke pretty well, he was a college freshman. Not only did he call the hotel for me but [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 24th 2009 | 68 Views | [diary=421064]

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By do t
July 20th 2009
Nyeh Asia » South Korea » Seoul » Seodaemun-gu » Sinchon
So today is/was monday. It was another struggle waking up. I do it to myself. Psych was boring, but Professor Zaidel is actually giving justification to some of her nazi 'rules.' They actually make sense. Damnit. Well I still dont like her...but now for fewer reasons. Before it was because she had crazy rules without explanation, but we're learning about 'learning' and 'conditioning' now and so she gave psychological support for some crazy things. Example: 'feedback session' after an exam is mandatory. (i actually didnt have a problem with this one because i like to find out how [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 20th 2009 | 30 Views | [diary=420365]


Gyeong Bok Gung Palace and area around the City Hall [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 30th 2009 | 30 Views | [diary=423825]

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