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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]
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] Blog: First Full Day in Korea
Date: September 7th 2008
Today I had my first full day here in Korea. I was waking up every hour because I was scared I would sleep in and miss my lunch appointment with my school’s owner. So I finally got up at 8am, which was still a full 8 hours of sleep. That wasn’t much considering I had slept very little in the last 24 hours. Well I got up and put all of my things in drawers and got my suit cases out of the middl ... read more
Date: September 7th 2008
Today I had my first full day here in Korea. I was waking up every hour because I was scared I would sleep in and miss my lunch appointment with my school’s owner. So I finally got up at 8am, which was still a full 8 hours of sleep. That wasn’t much considering I had slept very little in the last 24 hours. Well I got up and put all of my things in drawers and got my suit cases out of the middl ... read more


