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This photo taken outside the Swedish Pavillion at the Expo is just wrong; I had no part in this picture-taking nonsense and it was done without my knowledge or permission.
I've always loved Yeosu; it's a beautiful city on a small peninsula off the southern coast of Korea. (Visit in Google Maps.) So, of course, we definitely had to make the trip down for the Yeosu Expo 2012. For some reason, the event's gotten some bad press, but we were...
Yesterday we went to this temple that there were 80 thousands wood boards. Long time ago the boards are made from people. They made it, because when Mongolia attact our country they wrote Buda's words and use that power. They did lose in the war, but the country did not...
Cauvery patiently humored me at the historical sites and after we'd seen all that, we headed back to the amusement park on Weolmi Island for some fun, now that it was later in the day and there were more people to share the experience with. This spot marks the first...
Freedom Park sits right above the old foreign sector and includes the 100-year memorial to the establishment of US-Korea diplomatic relations (photo 2), the statue of Macarthur (photo 3) and the Chemulpo Club (photo 3), which used to be where the important foreigners in the area hung out. (Visit in...
The foreign sector in Chemulpo in the late 1800s was strictly divided between Chinese, Japanese and other foreigners sectors. This would have been the main street in the Japanese sector.
As far as I know, this is the only Chinatown in Korea and is located in the area of old Chemulpo where the foreigners were allowed to live. This is apparently where Jajangmyeon was first developed as a "Chinese food". (Visit in Google Maps.)
From Incheon Station, we took the bus to the amusement park on Weolmi Island, but there weren’t very many people there yet since we were so early. So we decided to visit some other places first, including the Museum of Korea Emigration History [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://mkeh.incheon.go.kr/icweb/html/web63/063]. (Visit in Google...
Cauvery and I headed out to Incheon yesterday. He was most interested in visiting the amusement park on Weolmi Island and getting to each jajangmyeon. For me, it was a chance to reflect on the history of the area, both MacArthur's landing at Incheon in 1950, and the foreign community...
The circumference of this fort (Visit in Google Maps) is 1.8 km, which, I'm told, is approximately the same size as Camp Wright in Afghanistan. I'm also told that some people at Camp Wright think their base is super small, but Haemi Fortress was big enough to be used as...
