World Cup shot

First month in Daejeon

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September 28th 2008
So our first month in Daejeon, South Korea has come and gone and what a month it has been! After a very long flight (15 hours) we hopped a bus at the airport and bussed to our city of Daejeon. The city has about 1.5 million people and is known as Korea’s science and technology capital. It has one subway line which connects some of the important areas (our apartment, the main train station, the o ... read more

Asia » South Korea » Taejon

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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