bride in her box

A traditional Korean wedding

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October 21st 2012
One beautiful sunny October day, we found ourselves gathered outside a small temple at Chungyeolsa in Busan for a traditional Korean wedding ceremony: Pae Baek (폐백). Sessy, an English teacher we met at orientation, was marrying her Korean boyfriend Myung-Seo. Traditional ceremonies like this have been widely replaced by more Western style ceremonies, so even my Korean work colleagues didn' ... read more

Asia » South Korea » Busan

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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