Downtown Young Tong - Suwon

Suwon Rocks

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June 27th 2005
Suwon is where I live it is 50 miles south of Seoul. It is a fairly typical Korean town that has been in the last 10 years to accomadate the communters who work in Seoul. Although Suwon is new there is some history to the city, before the mass development Suwon was an empiral city with a proctective wall surrounding it. I had the opportunity to visit this wall and take part in Traditional spo ... read more

Asia » South Korea

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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