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A walk around Jeonju

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October 25th 2008
First, Happy Birthday Dad! Ok, so today, I took a walk just to find the Post Office. It wasn't hard to find at all, and it's basically a hole in the wall behind the bank. Since it is Saturday, I expected it to be open in the morning hours, but closed in the afternoon. Well, I was wrong. When I got there it was chained up, but I could see the hours in the window. I couldn't very well read it, b ... read more

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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