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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. To be updated

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By Bigbrother
November 2nd 2009

My school is full of falling Autumn Asia » South Korea » Daegu

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My school yard is full of falling Autumn. A lot of leaves of trees turned greenery to colorful-yellow, brown, red-. I shot yellowed leaves and beautiful flowers in my school back yard and caught my some pupils with living in playground. You can enjoy these shoots. Leaves are falling, falling like falling snows, This fall is falling, falling with colored falling leaves. 同李十一醉憶元九白樂天花時同醉破春愁醉折花枝作 [View Full Entry]

By DaveH H is 4 adventure
November 2nd 2009

Blog time part 1 Asia » South Korea » Gyeonggi-do » Seongnam » Bundang

crimson ghost

Hello everybody! I know that it’s been a while, but here I am. So, these last few weeks have been pretty busy. Two weeks ago was mom week, meaning that moms had the option to sit in on our classes. This made me more than a little nervous, but I think it went pretty well. The same week as mom week was when Matt and Mark came to visit. It was really nice seeing some familiar faces out here. I guess you can say that them being here helped energize my batteries, and I think that I did a pretty good [View Full Entry]

By Gia In Korea
November 1st 2009

week one Asia » South Korea » Busan

Wow! What a week. To tell the truth I really don’t know where to start. I might start with my apartment. I’m really lucky as my apartment is quite big compared to what a lot of the different English schools provide their teachers. You see the schools generally supply the apartment as part of the contract so it is generally a small studio apartment that you are given. However, we are very lucky at our school as all of the teachers have a decent sized apartment. My apartment has three rooms that could be used as bedrooms. The one I uses [View Full Entry]

By Jess and Fran
November 1st 2009

Chateau Mani & the Korean Wine Train Asia » South Korea » Gyeonggi-do » Namyangju

Our group

The wine train is something Jess' mom told her about right after she arrived. Unfortunately in the madness that is jetlag she completely forgot about it until a friend reminded her, mentioning it would be a fun trip. That was in August. It took a while to get everything together, and it took some doing to make it work, but on Halloween, a group of 9 of us got together and finally made the journey. It meant having to start very early in the morning (catching a bus from our town at 7am!) as the train left Seoul station at 9, [View Full Entry]

Emma & Emma - otherwise known as Irish Emma and English Emma :)

By Kcamero3
November 1st 2009

Week 9 and 10 Asia » South Korea » Gwangju

The girls and I at the Kimchi Festival

So... week 9 and 10 were kind of eventful! week 9 we headed to the Kimchi festival. Kimchi is a huge part of Korean culture.. They eat Kimchi at every meal... Fomented cabbage which is super spicy.. not a fan but I decided I might as well try it while in Korea. Friends came down from another city in Korea and we all went out to party that night. It was a great night! My children were getting better until they threw me a curve ball and added 4 new students into my 5 year old class who don't speak English [View Full Entry]

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By Jools
October 31st 2009

Last days in the ROK Asia » South Korea » Seoul

Sights in my neighborhood

After Chusok weekend ended life switched from a nice even 80km/h pace to 250km/h on an autobahn in a country that didn’t seem like South Korea, it was a chaotic whirlwind but unforgettable none the less. The remaining four weeks that I had were filled with exam writing stress, mad school stress coupled with the need and desire to attend every Hash and every party that was on the cards. It really is true that it takes a year to settle into a place and from then on things get really awesome, this was most certainly the case for me! Coupled [View Full Entry]

By Dingles
October 31st 2009

Chungju city 충주 Asia » South Korea » Chungcheongnam-do

check out the ahjummas behind me

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]

By IKU ZE
October 31st 2009

Halloween off the eastern coast of South Korea Asia » South Korea

Kim topside

Halloween off the eastern coast of South Korea This turned out to be a Halloween I will never forget. Because I was currently living aboard a ship, my roommate and I tried to have some fun with the other people who were there as well. Since we had lots of candy, a pot of freshly brewed coffee, and several grilled cheese sandwiches (these are delicacies on ship) we told our guys to come up to our stateroom and neither dress up in a Halloween costume or provide us with some sort of entertainment. In doing so, we would allow them access [View Full Entry]

By mike dano
October 29th 2009

Mom and Dad Beaugrand take on Korea!! Asia » South Korea » Gyeongsangnam-do » Yangsan

Teaching

October has been an exciting month for us here, and it only got better when we found out my parents were coming for a visit!! They arrived in Yangsan on Wed. Oct. 21 and left the following Monday, and in that short time, we let them experience as much of the Korean culture as possible. They had a great trip and loved Korea :) Love Motels Yangsan is a small city by Korean standards (about 400,000 maybe?) and so there are no hotels in the city, only motels and we were lucky because a new one had recently opened down the [View Full Entry]

By mike dano
October 26th 2009

PIFF & Fireworks Asia » South Korea » Gyeongsangnam-do » Yangsan

PIFF Sign

Hello family and friends! How are things back home? Things here have settled down a bit in the last couple weeks after a busy first month and a half here! We're a little behind on the blog, but here's an update of the past few weeks! Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) October 8-16th, Pusan became the host of the 14th annual PIFF, the largest film festival in Asia! We took advantage of this and went to see a couple movies that we participating in the festivities. The first film was called "Deliver us From Evil" and was a Danish film about [View Full Entry]

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