Hanok houses

Bullet train to Busan

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October 12th 2023
Gyeongju is a historic small town on the eastern side of Korea; the old town is surrounded by 38 burial mounds. These are smooth half dome hillocks covered in short grass, each up to 22m high, and dotted apparently randomly across fields and parks. The tombs date from the 4th and 5th centuries and there is just one that you can go inside where there is a stone coffin in the centre, together with r ... read more

Asia » South Korea » Busan

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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... ... read more