fire festival

Festivals in Korea

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April 21st 2013
Korea is always the country for festivals - it's hard to keep count of what goes on! The first big one this year was the Lunar New Year (Seollal) February 9th-11th. We didn't attend celebrations as most of our friends went away together and hired a pension for the weekend, but for most Koreans it's a very important holiday and one that's spent with family. Lanterns were strung up a ... 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