Seoul

Seoul

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October 8th 2007
View our route here: http://www.travelblog.org/gmaps/map_4WM.html Just returned from a week's tour of South Korea - Mt. Sorak, Andong, Gyeongju, Pusan, Jinju, Chirisan. Included hiking in Mt. Sorak National Park, Mask Festival in Andong, motor scooter ride to Bulguksa out of Gyeongju, hot spring baths and scrub/massage/manipulation in Pusan, temple-stay in Hwaheomsa in Chirisan National Park, KTX ... 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