Author: Claire
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Dalseong Park – a sort of kind of zoo
On Sunday afternoon, I woke up at about half past 12 (midday). I hadn’t had a particularly late night but it’s sometimes luxuriously wonderful just to sleep in. I was lying in bed about half an hour later, reading, when I got a text from a friend. She was bored and wanted ideas of things…
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In search of an Opera House
You’d think an Opera House would be the kind of thing that wouldn’t be hard to find. Particularly when the Opera House in question is, according to their own website, ‘shaped like a grand piano’. It’s not quite as bizarre as the images this concept may conjure up, but there is definitely something grand-piano-esque (without…
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Gyeongju
One of the places about which my guide book is unusually enthusiastic – unusual because it is decidedly luke-warm about places like Daegu – is Gyeongju, a city about an hour away from Daegu which served as the capital during the Silla Dynasty, including during the first years of a unified Korea. The place is…