Mr... Your House Is On Fire?

Traditional house use underground heating systems like this (it doubles as an oven too). Most modern Korean homes still have under floor heating.

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Chuseok Week

October 6th 2006
Chuseok is the Korean Thanksgiving, a kind of Harvest Day, where the moon if full, and people give thanks. The day itself is a public holiday and there are others around it. My principle kindly relinquished my duties for the remaining two working days of the week and thus I had nine days off in a row. On the first Saturday, Tiem and I joined some other friends, and a tour group for a visit to ... read more

Asia » South Korea » Busan

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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