Busan! 022

Busan!

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November 8th 2009
I should have posted this entry as soon as I got back from Busan so I wouldn't forget the details but as we all know I'm a bit of a procrastinator. This will again be a 2 part blog, this one about Busan, the next about Seolleung tombs. Stay tuned… So for Halloween weekend Alison, Jen, Margaret and I decided to go to Busan. There were a few reasons for this: first, we wanted to escape the scuzzi ... read more

Asia » South Korea » Busan

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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