I found out about the bullfighting festival last year perusing some of my travel materials and became immediately excited. The dates ranged from March-April so wasnt sure when it would be held. I read a few peoples blogs from last year and was anxious to find the dates for this year. From about Febuary I was checking to see if an event website was up for this year but it kept showing dates from 2010.Finally, dates were posted for March 2011 and I continued to wai...

Tuesday nite was the first day of my Korean classes at the ymca. I was supposed to pay 120,000w for the class plus 25,000w for the books. Also, I wanted to goto Daegu Station to buy the train tickets ahead of time for saturdays bullfighting festival. When I got downtown I went to an ATM machine from my bank but they were all out of order. I went down a few blocks to another branch, same error message on all the machines. I went to a third larger branch and all th...

With the spring weather cherry blossom is in abundance everywhere. There are several cherry blossom festivals taking place, the most popular is in Jinhae, south of Daegu near the coast. A lot of folks went last weekend while we went to the Daegaya festival instead to avoid the crowds. I heard the buses and trains to Jinhae were all sold out days ahead, and we could see a bus on sa***********ing in that area that was completely packed.But since cherry blossom is e...

This weekends trip was to the Daegaya Festival, held in Goryeong, about a 25 min bus ride southwest of Daegu.Daegaya (AD 42~562) was a nation that inhabited the Gyeongsangnam-do province of Korea around the 4th Century. Daegaya was a sophisticated nation that even at this early age possessed extremely high standards of culture. They created the gayageum (a twelve-stringed traditional Korean harp) and played a large role in establishing the culture of music. They ...

This weekend a group of us travelled to Gyeongju, an hour east of daegu. This is my third time to Gyeongju. As described earlier, Gyeongju was first the capital of the Silla Kingdom in southeast Korea, then of the unified Korea, from about 50BC to 930AD. The whole town is an open air museum with an abundance of historical sites on every street. There were six of us again but two new people from last week.We travelled to the Shilla Millennium Theme Park. This is a...