Archive for the ‘ Nature and Environment ’ Category
Korea is the land of a thousand islands, dinosaur footprints and one of the world’s best preserved ecological parks. The rolling hills and mountains formed over thousands of years makes the peninsula a geography teacher’s dream. Off the south-western coast lies the Natural World Hritage Site and volcanic island, Jeju. Most of the beauty is confined [ READ MORE ]
Authors Note: This entry includes a slide show – a new feature to our website. It has been said that you can’t polish a turd. Generally this is an acceptable, perhaps nearly universal axiom. However, I would argue that if you put a turd amongst a bunch of cherry blossoms the turd would start looking pretty [ READ MORE ]
Korean cities are huge, ugly things. Building designs are generally based on practicality rather than aesthetics. Because Korea has enriched themselves so recently and so quickly compared to Europe or even North America, it has none of the historic architecture that they possess. Development is plodding, and developers are unconcerned with tradition. Apartment complexes — high-rise [ READ MORE ]
It seems that apart from Stuart’s bottle of water and the visitor tours, South Korea is planning another way to turn the Demilitarized Zone, the 248-kilometer long, 4 kilometer wide belt of land running from east to west that separates North from South Korea, into another money-making machine. The Government announced on Tuesday its intentions to [ READ MORE ]