Ugly People Stand Up Part 2
>continued from last week's reposting of " Ugly People Please Stand Up " >the original article and photos come from Shawn Noaman's brand new blog, FRESHPRINTS Social pressures can become overwhelming. It’s not uncommon for Korean high school girls…
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Weekly Photo : Gimje Festival
Amazing dragon sculptures at the Gimje festival made entirely out of paperclips. Just kidding. Tour Guide: Gimje's horizon festival or jipyeongseon , is renowned for several events, including contests for art and samulnori, a percussive orchestra comprised of seve…
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Chuseok for Young Gun's Family
My family is not traditional whatsoever. I'm guessing it's because of a lot of our family members practice Christianity. I was told that the older generation of Christianity believed anything that is not Christian, such as the traditional ways of Korea or Buddhism, a…
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Weekly Photo: Big Door
Big door with Brianne taking a picture of it. She uses much more advanced technology than my camera. Tour Guide - The area is called Bakjae Land. That door leads to a town of traditional style buildings. You need a ticket, but it's not too expensive. Whoev…
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Weekly Photo : Chuseok Sunset
Back in 2012. Tour Guide - Yeah. Glorious Chuseok. I mean, what would we do without wikipedia, right? Young-Gun Park Young-Gun Park has been studying various forms of visual arts for more than a decade and has been involved in various …
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Saemangeum Museum-ish Place
Saemangeum. I probably can't say too much about it myself because I don't know a lot more than what you can read in the Wikipedia article . I just know it's a trade-off: turning Gunsan into a rich industrial zone and making it a zero-swimmable area. Then I re…
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Weekly photo: Fire Magic
That man has a fireball in his hand and that means he's a wizard. Tour Guide - 'Burning Man' is a popular event among a lot of colorful people. It's also a pretty big show in the United States as well. Happens once a year and lasts about 3 days. You…
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Weekly Photo: Korean Mountain
Have you seen one of those old Korean landscape paintings? The ones with the mountains. The artists were probably looking at something like this when they painted those. Tour Guide - The landscape of Korea is basically a cluster of tiny mountains. There is no flat terra…
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Weekly Photo : Jeonju Hanok Village
Pretty roofs. Very smart roofs, too. Tour Guide - 전주 한옥 마을 (Jeonju Hanok Village) is a little town with a traditional Korean architecture theme on the edge of Jeonju City. A very good hybrid environment of old and new Korea with some western culture as well. One o…
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Bulguksa, Seoguram grotto, Girimsa, and Golgulsa
One spring day, three friends and I set off at 6 am to see four amazing spots in Korea . I know I must be a crazy waygook (foreigner) to be getting up this early on a weekend, but it is totally worth it for the great sights and even better company. We headed to Gyeongju a…
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