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Day 301 - You can call me Master Han

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April 29th 2007
With a bit of trepidation and a lot of excitement in anticipation, we met up with Master Ryan (his Anglicised name) for our 3 hour taekwondo lesson. Without much experience of martial arts, or none to be precise, we didn’t really know what to make of it when we were kitted out in our rather fetching outfits and began with some stretching. This progressed to jumping, and some rather poor attempts ... read more

Asia » South Korea » 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, a... ... read more