White Tourist Hotel Suwon

1010-5, Gwonseon-Dong Suwon, Korea Rep.

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Fun with Folks

A travel blog entry by stacimcg

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... Joseon period. This time of year it also featured some breathtaking views of the turning autumn leaves in the mountains.

After the contact sport of purchasing an admission ticket, (Koreans appear not to adhere to any particular form of queuing, and also have no problem shoving past you if you're in their way. This made me uncomfortable when we first arrived here, but once I realized no one was trying to steal my purse, and I'm bigger ...

Suwon Hwaseong Festival : Fortress & Military Show

A travel blog entry by londone7

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... there were other buildings at this end. I passed b the fortress museum which was now closed, and crossed the river that disects the fortress from north to south. The river was quite nice with a path and plants along the way. I remember seeing it from the gate wall as there is a waterfall as its comes under one of the lookout gates.

The evenings performance was in the archery area and crowds had already filled the seating area. I found ...

Suwon Hwaseong Festival : Royal & Citizens Parades

A travel blog entry by londone7

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... entertained while they waited for the parade were various street acts. There were K-Pop dancers, Korean Bellydancers, and a BMX bike stunts show. In the distance we could hear the parade coming as the police cleared people off the streets. The parade would come from the north end of the city, thru the fortress north gate, run down the centre of the fortress, and out the south gate into downtown Suwon

The parade began with ...

Suwon Hwaseong Cultural Festival

A travel blog entry by stacimcg

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... Cultural Festival that was going on at the time is kind of a big deal. There were several tents featuring all sorts of foods and crafts and a huge parade, My husband had his first encounter with what I've dubbed the Korean paparazzi, where strangers take our photographs. In the states if a stranger takes your picture at an event, they try to sell it to you. Here they do it because we're such a novelty, sort of like exotic zoo animals.
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Seou 1: No Longer the Hermit Kingdom

A travel blog entry by mchao

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... or some selling only lace of appliques or zippers. Clearly this is mean for professional or really avid amateur clothes makers because you'd see twenty something fashionable Koreas on smartphones checking things off their lists. The whole place is confusing, covering many buildings and many floors not all connected.

Finally, I was able to make it out the labyrinth with enough time to swing by Insa-dong the tourist mecca for buying 'traditional' ...

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