Wishlocks

A Korean melodrama classic. I didn't really spot any in Seoul but they present themselves here in Andong. You buy a small bottle with the lock attached, write your wish (usually some sappy thing with your lover) on a small slip of paper, put in the bottle, lock it to the grilles, and hope for the best!

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

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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

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