IMG_2826 west gate

Day 1 of Sightseeing in Seoul

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August 1st 2016
Hi everyone. Sorry we haven't been keeping our daily blogs for a while. We brought adapters with us to Korea but none that took a grounded outlet so we have been searching high and low everywhere we went and only just found one to recharge our laptop! Hopefully will catchup on our entries before we leave. ----- Woke up early and headed out towards West Gate. (Seoul used to be surround ... read more

Asia » South Korea » Seoul

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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