Our next stop for the day was Gongju, the sister town of the Baekje Kingdom where the evenings opening ceremonies and fireworks show were to take place. We needed to take a bus from Buyeo to Gongju which I heard was an hour.We got to the bus terminal about 4.35 and got tickets for the 4.41 bus, which was lucky as the next bus was an hour later. The ticket was only 4000w ($3.50) and we got to Gongju in 35 mins. I wanted to find a place to stay for the nite so look...

Friday was my birthday and exam day with no classes so I took the day off. Monday was also a public holiday so I had a four day weekend. Festival season has begun again so I planned on going overnight to the Baekje Festival which is taking place in two towns, Buyeo and Gongju.The Baekje Dynasty ruled south western korea for about five centuries till it fell to the Shilla Dynasty from the east creating the Unified Kingdom period. The Baekje had two capitals, Buyeo...

"Visit Daegu 2011" Tourism Site for the City of Daegu has listed my blog as one of five blogs promoting the City :http://visitdaegu2011.blogspot.com/2011 /06/five-english-language-blogs-related -to.html?spref=fb

With all the summer and holiday travelling done the weekend festival trips have begun again. This weekend four of us went to the Gyeongju World Culture Expo. This is actually running for two months from August to Mid October, but with all the holiday trips and other festivals coming up this was the first free weekend I had to go.Ticket prices were 15,000w ($15) or 12,000w for a group of 10 or more. Luckily we saw some scalpers selling the group tickets for 10,000...

This saturday I was asked to do a presentation to korean adults on UK society, history, politics, traditions, foods, etc. The presentation was to be at 10,30 am and to last 90 mins. However, the location was the southern tip of the city and I am the northern, so I had to leave home from 8am to get there.The location was in a high rise condo building. I have never been in one before so it was quite interesting. The room was on the 11th floor and was large with lot...