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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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By Munchkin
March 18th 2006
Settled? Maybe Asia » South Korea » Seoul
So when is the magical when I get up and everything just seems normal? It always feels like it is right around the corner...I have confidence moving around and stumbling my way through conversations, I know enough people here that I am now woven into the tapestry that is Bundang. And yet, something is still unsettled. Maybe that is a good thing. Maybe on the inside I don't want to be settled. It is refreshing to, for once, be shaken up- for life to be unpredictable, and for my identity to be a little blurry. It makes for an easier transition- [View Full Entry]

Munchkin - Shawna Manske | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: March 18th 2006 | 175 Views | [diary=47180]


12-27 10:30am Airport. LAX. Waiting to board the flight. as most of you know, I was extremely nervous about taking this flight since planes scare me. You would think that I wouldn't go to India because of this fear, but the second that I won't go on a trip because of fear is the day you can call me old. Although, that and the statistics that I'm more likely to die on the freeway going to the airport than on an airplane itself is little compensation for my obsessive compulsive Woody Allen type mind. I was nervous leading up to the [View Full Entry]

nardobram - Eric Bram | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: March 7th 2006 | 172 Views | [diary=43111]

Rum & coke #2

Hi there, Well its march 16th, I've quit my job at the nhs, after recieving the certifcation of becoming a specialist advisor for the lorenzo i soft programme, ( in normal terms training nurses on a computer) although the fancy title is deserved considering how computer illiterate so many of them can be. Who ever thought you could use a mouse by holding it up to a computer screen haha Well I have finally got my visa issuance no and everythings coming together, and I have a ready made friend in the name of Paul from Ireland wholl I'll meet at [View Full Entry]

Carla McCoy - carla mccoy | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: March 16th 2006 | 126 Views | [diary=46829]


By Munchkin
March 16th 2006
A day's work Asia » South Korea » Seoul
I have a gym membership now. That was a big thing to get out of the way. And it has been the success I wanted it to be. It has pulled me out of my physical slump. Mornings are easier now. But a cough has been going around. Actually, it is a brutal Asian cold (not to be confused with Asian flu, I hope) that lingers in the form of a dry, irritating, nagging, painful in that itchy sort of way, cough. This, in and of itself, is not the end of the world. However, Dreaded Class 14 has created a [View Full Entry]

Munchkin - Shawna Manske | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: March 18th 2006 | 245 Views | [diary=47184]

Jasmine
Chris
June

Week 1 of Christine's Visit: We were pretty damn happy to have someone from home. It was so fun to show someone around our new home...with all its craziness. We packed a lot of sight seeing and touring into those two weeks. Here is a quick low down on week 1. - Dmz tour. This was a pretty interesting day. The whole day had this certain uneasiness to it. To think that we tourists were having a good'ol time, metres from North Korea...where the only things we hear about are atrocities of some sort. We were told when to take photos, [View Full Entry]

Kristy and Colin - Kristy and Colin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: March 22nd 2006 | 231 Views | [diary=46422]

Over the thin red line at the DMZ
Rok ready
Idiot tourist

Sorry to keep doing this to you all... but we really must share our doings or we'll go insane with the company of only ourselves :P. I know it's been a while since we spat our vile doings your direction, and for that we apologise, but this will be a really big hock for you all... one of those real throat clearers... anyways... enough of that. We've been all around the place seeing and doing various things. In short, I also went to the DMZ, it was pretty cool. We had to sign a piece of paper saying we agreed that [View Full Entry]

the_frontal_lobe_disinhibited - Lobe | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: March 13th 2006 | 218 Views | [diary=46218]

The boys and Korn
A clever boy
Pencil box

Well, I survived the bitter winds and the freezing temperatures of Seoul. I also survived 42.something kilometers of running.....something I will think twice about the next time I am presented with the chance to run a marathon. It wasn't so bad the first 16 miles, but after that I wanted to end it...haha. seriously, though the legs cramped up and I found myself looking for a subway station to make a last minute ditch....luckily there weren't any nearby at the time, so I finished in 4 hours, 43 minutes. It was rough, everyone was sick of the evil wind (I thought [View Full Entry]

Hatchy - Jennifer | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: March 13th 2006 | 249 Views | [diary=46252]

F Group
I'm cold
Ready to go

By Munchkin
March 11th 2006
to love deeply Asia » South Korea » Seoul
Somewhere I heard it described in this way: the desire to fall deeply in love with something is that the world becomes much more manageable. Passion for something, one individual focus for that passion, allows one to center their attention, to keep from spilling all over the place (I think it was the movie "Adaptation"- I'll have to search for the actual quote- certainly its eloquance will exceed my awkward paraphrase). Being a person of passion, this makes absolute sense. This may be the actual reason I have a love affair with being in love- the intensity is focused, cleaner, less [View Full Entry]

Munchkin - Shawna Manske | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: March 11th 2006 | 213 Views | [diary=45727]


Classes started on Thursday the second. The system here is “try before you buy,” giving students a chance to visit the classes before they decide which to take. This works well because it turned out that one I had singed up for was not at all what I had thought it was, and one I wasn’t really excited about looks like it will be the most informative class I will have at Yonsei. Walking into a sea of people the Thursday classes started, jolted me back into a place I had seen before, but I couldn’t quite put my hands on [View Full Entry]

Bekah - Rebekah Luhrs | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: March 10th 2006 | 389 Views | [diary=45631]

Dongdaemun-gu
Angles
European Journalists

By Kristy and Colin
March 10th 2006
It's Showtime Asia » South Korea » Seoul
Hello! A couple weeks ago we had the year end Kindergarten concert at school. These concerts are taken very seriously with the private Kindergartens. This is a chance for the school staff to affirm that the parents’ decision to pay big bucks for that school was a good one. (These “hagwons”, or private schools, are a dime a dozen around here.) As teachers, we started being told about the importance of this event back in November. We had to pick our class costumes in December (yes, two official costumes changes per class) and confirm songs, skits, and dances. Weekly, and [View Full Entry]

Kristy and Colin - Kristy and Colin | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: March 10th 2006 | 227 Views | [diary=45634]

I had boy cats and girl cats
Colin on stage with his kids
With the owners