Old gate in the middle of main street. This is Korea's Number One Treasure, and was burnt down one day later. The wooden structure on top, will take 3 years and $US20 million to rebuild.
#8- THREE BIG CITIES January 28th 2008 #8- THREE BIG CITIES
1-THE CITY OF DAEGU AND THE SKYTOILET.
The closest city to my village is called Daegu (Day-goo) and is the third largest city in South Korea and is about the size of Sydney. It takes me about two hours and three bus changes to get to the centre of the city. By car, it takes about 40 minutes over a beautiful (but dangerous-in-winter) mountain range. In win ... read more
Asia » South Korea » Daegu 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
FROM CHINA TO KOREA
I have recently returned from two trips to China teaching English and I am about to start teaching again; this time in South Korea. I love travel, especially in Asia and by working there, feel I experience the country more than by just passing thru it.
My previous travels before China were 15 months in North America and Europe in 1975-76 and many South East Asian countries in 1980-81 for another 9 months. After almost another quarter of a century living in Australia, I got the travel bug once again.
This time I decided to do it slightly differently by working. I hear... full info