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Seoul slapdown and first days

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May 30th 2012
In case you did not already know, I am in South Korea for a little over five weeks. This might be considered to be somewhat of an overkill given that the country is relatively small, but it does likely mean that I will be able to truly dawdle if I want to, or are just lazy. The main problem of course is that I have already been here six days and have not got the blog quite off the ground yet (unti ... 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