Street vendors

Every fifth day, the Yeoju market street erupts with life becasue of the market day. stinky fish booths, clothes, anything you can imagine from the locals is being sold... I even heard there is a section of live animals, like stock animals, that are sold at the end of the street, but we never got that far. It's good fun just for strolling and passing time and getting some wicked culture too

Blog-abration #4: Yeoju, South Korea: A Photo Tour of Our Korean Hometown

October 4th 2009
Before coming to Korea, we couldn’t find any information on the designated town we were to call home for the next year. Literally, the only two solid bits of information, if you can call them that, in which we knew for sure was that Yeoju is the home for some kind of world ceramic festival and there is a premium outlet shopping mall in town. You could say we were going in pretty blind, but in th ... 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

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