The Calm After the Storm

Another Wasted Vacation

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September 19th 2005
I should have prayed to my ancestors, and left them some candy or something. I had a four-day weekend, the last day of which is today, due to the Korean holiday of Chuseok, which is a harvest moon festival, on Sunday. It is most closely related to Thanksgiving in America, which means that traffic on an around the holiday is a nightmare, it's impossible to get a domestic flight or a tra ... read more

Asia » South Korea » Busan

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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