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SOUTH KOREA
Many people know something about South Korea. It can be around Its food, K-pop, make-up, films and series, the nobel prize winner in literature Han kang, or perhaps the last mess within the parliament.

But I would like to show you more about this rather tiny country in Asia. I wrote down for many years ago my thoughts and my knowing of Korea's history and culture, but it's just been there in a file and nothing happened to it.
I do not say that I know everything, and I am not a resident of South Korea, but I have been there some times and my wife is from Korea.
So Hopefully on a weekly basis I will be able to write down something from this old country, but young democracy in the far east.
What is also a bit interesting is that to build bridges is necessary to reach people, but South Korea's northern neighbor has tear down them all.





Korea, as I see it.

 

What do I really know
about Korea? How would I best describe “The land of the morning calm”?

 

I have to admit I did
not know much before I met my wife, who by chance comes from Korea.

I will try to tell you
what I have found out in this rather small peninsula at the Far East, and I’m
not making this into a guide book, a history book or a biography,it is  more like a teaser, an injection for you who are not that familiar with Korea, for you who
soon will be travelling there or for you who just want to know.

 

Korea has during the
centuries been a centre for culture and war. The different occupying powers
have been many, such as: China, Mongolia, Manchuria, Japan and USA. They all
have started war against this friendly nation, who actually never themselves
started a war. They all have been trying to destroy the Korean culture and
identity, but just as all the different nations trying to take over Israel,
they have been defeated.

In able to tell you the
history of Korea, I can't avoid to write rather much about Koreans suffering,
suffering against the occupation by Japan, the ma ... Läs mer...

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