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South Korea

  • Population: 48.2 million (UN, 2005)
  • Capital: Seoul
  • Area: 99,313 sq km (38,345 sq miles)
  • Major language: Korean
  • Major religions: Buddhism, Christianity
  • Life expectancy: 73 years (men), 80 years (women) (UN)
  • Monetary unit: won
  • Korea Herald - English-language

Road Junky has 17 South Korea articles. Scroll down to view.

South Korea Travel Guide

Just off the northeastern end of China, dangling out in The East Sea like a deflated hemorrhoid sits the strategically controversial flash point of Asian and international politics, the Korean ...

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The Korean Rum Diary

Road Junky stumbled across the Korean Rum Diary and was curious what motivated someone to write stuff like:

Every time I come back to Korea it hurts… I get used ...

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The Korean DMZ

The most heavily fortified border in the world is a strange kind of divide, because unlike the people on either side of most military separations, Koreans seem to view one ...

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Fleeced Like a Sucker in South Korea on the BBC

“I’ll never trust another old person,” Bart Simpson once said, and for that nugget of wisdom I’ve always half-respected him. The fact is the elderly are as capable of screwing ...

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Dirty Foreigners Brought Swine Flu to South Korea

South Korea has an unfortunate history of mass hysteria and severe paranoia, a result of gross national contempt for the world beyond its borders. Perhaps this is understandable for ...

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Kimchi in Korea - the Pickled Cabbage Obsession

Kimchi may indeed be “the cabbage you can ravage with the chilli paste taste,” but, honestly, it just isn’t that great. Sure, taste is subjective and all but kimchi in ...

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Lunchtime in Koreatown - the TEFL Teacher's Nightmare

First day of the new school year. Early March and there was cold in the bones and dread in my heart. The memory of Thailand only one week old as ...

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Teaching English in South Korea

South Korea was the only country I remember that anyone expressly warned me not to visit. Several people had mentioned that it was about the most hung-up, sterile, joyless society ...

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Dating in South Korea

For the Western woman, Korea contains so much water, but rarely a drop to drink. The average western man in Korea becomes an Asiaphile overnight because Korean women tend to ...

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Korean Rectal Surgery

After being directed into the room by three giggling young nurses, I lay on the examination table for my first Korean rectal inspection. Upon the walls hung loving pictures of ...

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