Up close & personal

Mu Sang Sa Temple Stay, South Korea

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September 15th 2008
Do you know who you are? Don’t know? It doesn’t matter. Just read on. Choseok is a major 3 day holiday and one of the busiest times of year for travel in Korea, making it nearly impossible to get a train or bus ticket to any destination in the country. Luckily, after some grueling efforts and cut-throat demands from a Korean train station volunteer, I was able to score the last and only ... read more

Asia » South Korea » Chungcheongnam-do

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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