Mallipo Beach

Bob and Mrs Choi get their feet wet in the Yellow Sea at Mallipo Beach - one of the most popular summer beaches on the west coast. It has beautiful, fine sand and long, mild sloping sand - ideal for most Koreans (who have a thing about swimming in general, and swimming in the sea in particular).

Visit to Anmyeongdo (Island)

October 15th 2007
We left Seonjang with Mr. and Mrs. Choi, friends of Young Ok's mother. Mr. Choi taught both Nerida and Matthew when they went to school in Seonjang Middle School. We headed for Anmyeong Island to stay for 2 nights in a resort condominium. We found in this part of the country, especially in Taean-gun, a rural Korea that I thought had been lost. It is modernising, but without the crass development f ... read more

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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

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