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A day trip

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March 16th 2015
For today we had planned to go to Chuncheon, the city our friend Minjeong is from (who I study with) and meet her family. We had to leave the house pretty early and even though Astrid was up earlier than be she still ended up being the last one ready to leave. We missed our train (although to be fair we had bad luck with our metro connections, so we would have probably missed it anyways) and had t ... read more

Asia » South Korea » Gangwon-do » Chuncheon » Nami Island

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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