Garlic for sale in Danyang market

Danyang and Sobaeksan National Park

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September 27th 2016
We arrived in Danyang around lunchtime having left Gyeongju earlier that morning. After lunch we went for a walk through the market. We'd read a few blogs about Danyang before we arrived which said that you can see more garlic than you've seen in your whole life at the Danyang market; being garlic lovers we were fairly skeptical about this. After having walked two out of the three aisles of the ... 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