Checking on dinner

Summer in Seoul

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June 21st 2008
This blog is a random assortment of pics from this summer. Though it was technically the rainy season, we managed to enjoy ourselves and travel around the city a bit. We even got to the beach on the Western coast of Korea, though sunshine - and thus, decent tans - eluded us. We headed down for the famous Boryeong Mud Festival, which is a celebration of the therapeutic mud found in that region of t ... 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