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New Year/Seoul Calibur II

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January 3rd 2010
It was a short week again and I was really happy about it. Four days of teaching are infinitely better than five for some reason. I spent a good part of the week trying to sort out a debacle with my cable bill. It seems that even though the company knew I only owed them 16,000 won the bill they sent said 50,000. The bill paying machine at the bank seemed to agree with the piece of paper and wa ... 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