another panorama

Jeongjondo

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May 7th 2008
Last weekend I managed to get out of the city, at least out of the main part anyway. Jeongjongdo is an island where the main airport is located in Incheon. It is still quite busy but the difference in the air was quite astounding! The water, however, is quite dirty as the West Sea is the passage from Korea to China and it is a major shipping route between the two. My boss and his family were ... read more

Asia » South Korea » Incheon

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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