Now that's a golf course

Cultural Tour

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August 26th 2006
Steve got up at 4:30am on Saturday morning to play golf at the hotel (which means I also got up at 4:30 because I was closer to the phone when it rang for his wakeup call). It was still dark when they started, but he said watching the sunrise from the course and seeing the mist rise with the mountains in the background was breathtaking. The golf courses in Korea are much narrower than those in Can ... read more

Asia » South Korea » Gyeongsangbuk-do » Gyeongju

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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