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Korea

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February 16th 2009
When you are japanese, or in Japan, going to Korea is the thing to do. Tokyo is closer to Korea than any other country, so close in fact that it takes longer by plane to get to Okinawa than it does to Seoul. Korea is cheap, dirt cheap. I've never been in a country before where the dollar bought anything. Japan's yen is very strong compared to the dollar, and the times I was in Europe the excha ... 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