Fatherly love

Happy Birthday Buddha!

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May 19th 2008
Last week was Buddha's birthday so my friend Dawn and I headed out to the Cheonggyecheon to partake in the lantern celebration. The Cheonggyecheon, is a stream through the middle of Seoul, it has a great history of being a Royal washing place, a meeting spot for seperated families after the Korean war, then a dangerous shanty town. After all of that the Korean govt decided to build a highway ove ... 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