Dol Haraebong

Last Days on the Open Road

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March 9th 2012
This blog is long overdue, as most of them were along the way. No apologies this time, I was kind of busy! I ended my time in Southeast Asia on a high note. I spent almost 48 hours traveling from Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur on two back-to-back overnight trains. I met up with old friends and made several new ones along the way. I also had the pleasure of spending an 8 hour layover in Penang with a f ... read more

Asia » South Korea » Seoul

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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