Rando of the class

A quick catch-up

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January 15th 2007
This is my second evening off in the past two weeks... and it is glorious. I can no longer justify teaching my children because they all compute to ages 7 and 8. When you are born in Korea they count you as 1, and on New Years day after your birth year, you are 2. Then you celebrate each successive New Years as you are legitimately gaining a year. EX: I am 26 in Korean years. So when my kids t ... read more

Asia » South Korea » Jeju

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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