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Misty Mountains and Little Brown Soldiers, Kumgangsan, Korea Dem Peoples Rep travel blog

Misty Mountains and Little Brown Soldiers

A travel blog entry by darkstar

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... buses, some 90 foreigners in all, and waiting outside my bus, I chattered absently with a tour guide, distracted by the North Korea soldier standing a few metres away, and mesmerized by the portrait of Kim Il Sung--still head of state 12 years after his ...

Hiking In The Hermit Kingdom, Kumgangsan, Korea Dem Peoples Rep travel blog

Hiking In The Hermit Kingdom

A travel blog entry by darkstar

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... foreign investment in North Korea, Hyundai's Kumgangsan tourist region is one of Pyongyang's highest currency generators. Despite North Korea's devout anti-American sentiment, the US dollar rules in Kumgangsan. Whisked from the hotel compound and onto a ...

Dark Side Of The Earth, Kumgangsan, Korea Dem Peoples Rep travel blog

Dark Side Of The Earth

A travel blog entry by darkstar

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... visit to the DMZ and the hiking tour of Kumgangsan, the next stop is Pyongyang. Why am I so fascinated by North Korea? I'm not ideologically sympathetic. I find Kim Jong il and his regime repellent. It's more about my own curiosity and desire to know. ...

Don't Count Your Luck, Seoul, Korea Rep. travel blog

Don't Count Your Luck

A travel blog entry by darkstar

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... couriered my passport to the travel agent within an hour. There are times when I truly appreciate being in a country like Korea, where crimes like theft are relatively rare. In another country this story might not have had such a happy conclusion. I ...

Encounter With The Kims, Kumgangsan, Korea Dem Peoples Rep travel blog

Encounter With The Kims

A travel blog entry by darkstar

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We honestly thought nothing of it, even though we probably should have. The mural looked warm and inviting, so harmless and fascinating, exposed as it was under bright lights in the dark evening, and we were drawn to it like moths to a flame. Aside from ...

Seoul Food, Seoul, Korea Rep. travel blog

Seoul Food

A travel blog entry by coryandlaura

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Not much to tell about the layover accept we had the soup again. We are going to have to plan a trip to Korea soon. The airport is just not ...

Take a slow boat to China, Incheon, Korea Rep. travel blog

Take a slow boat to China

A travel blog entry by adamandeva

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After staying in Seoul for a while, this is a tiny harbor city. However, we have the best meal ...

This soup has Seoul, Seoul, United States travel blog

This soup has Seoul

A travel blog entry by coryandlaura

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We are sitting in the Seoul airport. We went to our favorite restaurant here in the airport. It took us a while to find it. We had only been to it once when we were here during a layover to China. Of course we had the soup. It still gave us that feeling ...

Dazzling city, Seoul, Korea Rep. travel blog

Dazzling city

A travel blog entry by adamandeva

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seoul, Seoul, Korea Rep. travel blog

seoul

A travel blog entry by baileyandkerry

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The Korean people had obviously read my discouraging comments about China and to ensure a positive review100,000 of them lined the streets in red shirts to celebrate our arrival. If that left us slightly bemused, we spent 25minutes trying to find the ...

The chicken and the folk village, Andong, Korea Rep. travel blog

The chicken and the folk village

A travel blog entry by adamandeva

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Quiet small , host robert with lovely airconditioned ...

Seoulful Goodbyes, Ilsan, Korea Rep. travel blog

Seoulful Goodbyes

A travel blog entry by katshannon

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Look! A dog on the ground!, Goyang City, Korea Rep. travel blog

Look! A dog on the ground!

A travel blog entry by katshannon

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You know you've been in Korea too long when the call "Look! A dog on the ground!" actually makes you turn and look. It would seem the Paris Hilton phenomenon has leeched into the country's consciousness like poison into the village well. All the young ...

The Big Wet, Goyang City, Ilsan, South Korea, Korea Rep. travel blog

The Big Wet

A travel blog entry by katshannon

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... through water a couple of feet deep to get from point A to point B is not the most appealing of prospects considering Korea never really got around to building a sealed sewerage system, and the fact that the filth one usually tries to avoid stepping in ...

McDonald Flavoured Underpants, Goyang City, Ilsan, Korea Rep. travel blog

McDonald Flavoured Underpants

A travel blog entry by katshannon

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... big bottle guy and I'll post it on here as soon as I get a copy. With promises to all get together in Itaewon - Korea's entertainment hub - on Friday night, we all started making our way home. I actually managed to find my way from Downtown Seoul back to ...

Seoul - Day 137-139, Seoul, Korea Rep. travel blog

Seoul - Day 137-139

A travel blog entry by christosp

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... the walk around the complex. I've visited many traditional Japanese buildings when I was there in 2005 and the architecture in Korea is very similar to the untrained eye. The Korean's would probably disagree. After leaving the palace I headed to the ...

Seoul & DMZ (North Korea Border) - Day 140, Panmunjom, Korea Rep. travel blog

Seoul & DMZ (North Korea Border) - Day 140

A travel blog entry by christosp

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... The tunnel was hand dug through the gratnite bed rock 75 metres underground by the North Koreans. The tunnel penetrated into South Korea by many hundreds of metres before being discovered. It's said that 10000-15000 troops could pass through the tunnel ...

Jeju Island (Seongsan-Ilchulbong) - Day 142, Seongsan-Ilchulbong, Korea Rep. travel blog

Jeju Island (Seongsan-Ilchulbong) - Day 142

A travel blog entry by christosp

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The buses on Jejo are cheap, efficient and frequent and the routes go to all the major tourist sites on the island. So I caught the bus again today to a town called Seongsan Ilchulbong, where a 182 metre high extinct volcanic crater sits on the east ...

Happy Birthday Buddah, Goyang City, Ilsan gu, Korea Rep. travel blog

Happy Birthday Buddah

A travel blog entry by katshannon

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... this country and forcing kids to stop speaking their own language, especially when they misinterpret the rule and run around saying "No Korea!" It's a little cringe-worthy, but it's a rule their parents want enforced. Whatever. They are soaking it up like ...

Korean War Memorial, Seoul, Korea Rep. travel blog

Korean War Memorial

A travel blog entry by trent

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I forgot to tell about our final camp class performance...the pictures didn't turn out, but apparently it was pretty good as we did the Creation Fashion Show! Our class did the story of creation with a twist, as a fashion show, so for two weeks we ...

Jeju Island (Hallasan & Jeju-Si) - Day 143, Jeju City, Korea Rep. travel blog

Jeju Island (Hallasan & Jeju-Si) - Day 143

A travel blog entry by christosp

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Caught another bus to Hallasan national park today. Mount Hallasan is 1950 metres above sea level and is the largest mountain in South Korea, it sits bang in the middle of Jejo island and is now extinct, I hope! The plan was to head to the ...

tiny shopping historic town, Gyeongju, Korea Rep. travel blog

tiny shopping historic town

A travel blog entry by adamandeva

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The historic site is small but the town is ...

Seoul searching, Seoul, Korea Rep. travel blog

Seoul searching

A travel blog entry by adamandeva

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The 20 night wait, Part I, Seoul, Korea Rep. travel blog

The 20 night wait, Part I

A travel blog entry by byrnedm

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... beginning to feel a lot like Christmas · Korean Bathhouse I went to the bathhouse today, my first time on this visit to Korea. It's always an enjoyable experience (assuming you can get over the nudity aspect of the visit) and lying sweating in one ...

A strange Christmas, Jochiwon, Korea Rep. travel blog

A strange Christmas

A travel blog entry by byrnedm

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... at this stage we're dreaming of a white New Year. Hey Canada, any chance you can send over some snow? Jochiwon, Korea. Thanks. · Sweet Timing is indeed everything. Yesterday, 4pm Christmas Eve, Meg took delivery of a parcel from Canada, a parcel we ...

Handong Global University, Pohong, Korea Rep. travel blog

Handong Global University

A travel blog entry by trent

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... with him...mostly to the delight of Scott himself, but also a few others!! ;) Afterwards, Scott, Barry, and I hit a sauna, which are supposed to be "can't-miss" in Korea, but I had been to many like it in Japan. It was nice but nothing ...

Checking in, Yangji, Korea Rep. travel blog

Checking in

A travel blog entry by byrnedm

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... We are of the impression that sticking to a schedule is somewhat of a challenge for the company the students work for (Korea Express, a Korean logistics company... kind of ironic really). We were aware of a few camp schedule changes prior to getting to ...

The Deed Is Done, Jochiwon, Korea Rep. travel blog

The Deed Is Done

A travel blog entry by byrnedm

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... here, shaving there. Do you think you'd ever see that level of trust in Ireland or Canada? No, didn't think so. · Only in Korea, part 2 Koreans get their hair cut and then they have it washed. Isn't it supposed to be the other way around, assuming ...

Last Days of Camp, Pohang, Korea Rep. travel blog

Last Days of Camp

A travel blog entry by trent

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Camp wound down and it was an interesting experience being that I had heard such terrible things about Korea and its people...but I didn't really experience too much of what I had heard and think I will come back and teach at a uni here sometime next ...

It's All Uphill From Here, Jochiwon, Korea Rep. travel blog

It's All Uphill From Here

A travel blog entry by byrnedm

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· Jochiwon, South Korea · GMT +8:00 hours · Days until we finish camp - 32 · Days until we leave Korea - 37 The crude countdown timer you see above (yep, that's what those two lines are, okay?) will be an ever present feature capping the rest ...

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