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Hahoe Village

An elderly farmer stopped to carry out a monologue with me in Korean after he saw me taking photos of his crops. He must surely have realised I wasn't Korean and didn't speak the language, going by my lack of response and mere polite nods, but he carried on anyway for several minutes, even demonstrating how he pulled weeds out from the ground.
Andong (19-21 Jul 15)

July 20th 2015
After one week, it was time to leave the capital to check out the other parts of the country, and I took the 2.5h bus ride south to the smallish city of Andong in the Gyeongsangbuk province. Andong boasts in its vicinity the Unesco site of Hahoe Village, with its two thousand year history of traditional Korean culture and village life, and I would spend a couple of days here en route to my other ... read more
Asia » South Korea » Gyeongsangbuk-do » Andong

Korean Flag 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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