Walking along the coast, view of Busan

Welcome 2010!

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January 4th 2010
Happy New Year everyone!! We hope that you all had a wonderful holiday season and welcomed the new year in style! A quick word about our Christmas in Korea. There's really not much to say-without our family and friends from home, it just wasn't the same - we even had taekwondo class on Christmas Eve, as if it were just any other day! We had a potluck dinner with all the other foreigners in Yangsa ... 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