Kyeongbukgong
Royal Palace, 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, ... [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, ... [read more] Blog: Korea...but its changing
Date: August 19th 2006
"Kiss me goodbye and write me when I'm gone....goodbye sweetheart, hello Vietnam" - Johnny Wright, Full Metal Jacket Soundtrack 2 Teaching days. 18 hours of clowning, thinly veiled as education. 5 calendar days and...Vietnam. I guess the lack of correspondance on my part is due to the fact that Korea, yes, South Korea, right next door to ol' Kim Jong 2 (heheh) has been, for quite a while n ... read more
Date: August 19th 2006
"Kiss me goodbye and write me when I'm gone....goodbye sweetheart, hello Vietnam" - Johnny Wright, Full Metal Jacket Soundtrack 2 Teaching days. 18 hours of clowning, thinly veiled as education. 5 calendar days and...Vietnam. I guess the lack of correspondance on my part is due to the fact that Korea, yes, South Korea, right next door to ol' Kim Jong 2 (heheh) has been, for quite a while n ... read more
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“To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity. You're expected to be stupid. The entire mechanism of the host country is geared to travelers acting stupidly. You walk around dazed, squinting into fold-out maps. You don't know how to talk to people, how to get anywhere, what the money means, what time it is, what to eat or how to eat it. Being stupid is the pattern, the level and the norm. You can ex... full info
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