The Start

The view at the top of the stairs, looking north to Gunsan. Our car is on the left side of the outer rings of car, it's the white one.

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O2 Hiking Club - Sinsido - Daegaksan

May 29th 2010
The apartment we live in has started a hiking club; they meet once or twice a month at a nearby park and go hiking. Our first hike was at Sinsido, an island just south of Kunsan. To get there we drove along the new Saemangeum wall, the same road I ran the Half Marathon. Well when we got to the start of the trail and looked up I knew this would be a typical Korean hike; we went up over 100 steps. W ... 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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