Road to Gulgusa

Temple stay

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January 1st 2007
My friends and I decided to go for a temple stay over the new year 2006/2007. We left early form Gumi with the bus to Gyoengju. There we had a look at the tombs in Tumuli Park. Because it was the middle of the winter everything was dry and dull. On the other side of the park we saw a horse carriage ride going up and down through a park. We bought tickets and went on a very bumpy ride imagin ... 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