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Happy Easter Part 2 !!

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April 19th 2006
Ok Gerry, maybe that last one was a bit of a downer. This will be the 'Happy' version of the "Happy Easter" entry. Kristy and I headed to the Children's Grand Park here in Seoul last Saturday (day before Easter) to check out the Cherry Blossom trees that everybody had been talking about. These trees are also in every second Korean television commercial (fake ones of course), usually with a roma ... read more

Asia » South Korea » Seoul

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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