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Silla History Weekend!

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May 9th 2008
May 3rd-5th, Saturday-Monday. Monday being "Children's Day" so we had the day off. Yesterday, May 8th, was Parent's Day (instead of Father's or Mother's Day). In Japan they also have separate boys and girls days instead of just children's day. Well, because of the long weekend, I went to Gyeongju, the old Silla Kingdom capital of South Korea. It is a city marked as an important cultural h ... read more

Asia » South Korea » Gyeongsangbuk-do » Gyeongju

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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