Changdeokgung, detail

Nudity and North Korea

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July 31st 2007
We’d been planning on a trip to Jeju Island for our summer holiday but as it turned out so had the rest of Korea. By the time we got round to booking there wasn’t a single seat left on flights or boats so we decided to head up to Seoul for a more active break. I really like Seoul as a city, it hasn’t got any jaw-dropping sights but it has got the buzzing energy of a North-Asian-neon-lit-pe ... read more

Asia » South Korea » Seoul

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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