Goodbye to the Land of the Morning Calm and the Screaming Kids {Darrell}
September 14th 2008 A year and a half ago Cathy and I both had the idea of backpacking around Asia. At the time, not only were we lacking the money to fund such a trip, but we even had student loans that needed to be deals with first. The solution came in the form of a contract to teach English to kids in Korea. It was a fascinating, frustrating and ultimately fantastic experience. But that too was just a stage. And
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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 
