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Monday, March 22nd, 2010
over a year after the last post. this concludes the korea trip recount. it has been nearly 2 years since we've gone to korea. if we ever make it back to korea, i wonder how long those posts will take me.
our last day in korea was bittersweet. i was looking ...
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
As I mentioned in the previous korea post, I MUST FINISH THIS.
After the trip to GyeongJu, we spent the night at my uncle's home in Gumi.
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It's a small and modest house in what most of us would consider a very rural area. this is where my dad's family's land ...
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
i am embarassed, but i MUST complete this series.
day9 of our korea trip was a trip to GyeongJu. Joseph had read in the travel books about this place as the place to go to see Cherry Blossoms in korea. I briefly mentioned it to my uncle and next thing you ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
so today we were at 6 flags. great day for an amusement park.
one of the rides was called "the ninja". the coaster was ok, the park definitely had some better ones. but the line was nice and short. but the best part of the ride was when the "host"/operator kept ...
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
i dunno what's going on. the world has turned upside down. the chinatown bus now has free wifi. it's not blazing fast, but i'll take it!
on the websites it said there was free wifi. i was skeptical. shady chinese folks trying to lure people away from using the bolt bus ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
sorry for the lateness. i've just been lazy. these posts take a lot of effort (cos they're wordy) and planning (because i don't want to inundate you with too many pictures)
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joseph and i started planning the trip to the dmz before we left for korea. at first i was ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
as i noted in the previous post, we took my cousin's kids to Lotte World. first let me explain what Lotte World is. it's an amusement park inside and extremely large mall. (the mall of america also has some "theme parks" but I've never been, so i don't know what ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
i'm even farther behind since the last day and half or so we've been on a plane. we're back in nyc now, so i'll be finishing up the blogging from here.
since sat nite, triplet #1 and #2 spent the nite at my aunts, we went to church with my cousin ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
so in my attempt to show joseph around seoul finally, i wanted to take him to the street market. that morning at breakfast i was thoroughly reprimanded by my aunt, uncle and cousin who demanded that i take him to see more things. so instead of just showing him things ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
one of my favorite places to visit as a kid was minseokchun (korean folk village). for the americans the closest analogy would be... korean version of williamsburg colonial village. it's also where they taped various korean period tv shows like "daejanggeum".
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it doesn't sound very exciting. why would this be ...
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