Empress Myeongseong's birthplace

Yeoju had something like 6 empresses born in and around the area. This one in particular was assasinated in a Japanese raid in Seoul and is a bit more famous for it, her home is nicely kept up and on display near my school. I always joke, my co-teacher, Mr. Kim, apparently he is a distant descendent of Empress Myeongseong so I wave at his 'grandmother' everytime we drove by her statue

Blog-abration #4: Yeoju, South Korea: A Photo Tour of Our Korean Hometown

October 4th 2009
Before coming to Korea, we couldn’t find any information on the designated town we were to call home for the next year. Literally, the only two solid bits of information, if you can call them that, in which we knew for sure was that Yeoju is the home for some kind of world ceramic festival and there is a premium outlet shopping mall in town. You could say we were going in pretty blind, but in th ... 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

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