Category: Adventures
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Madama Butterfly
Life lesson number # (many): Do not wear mascara when going to watch a great tragic opera. Yes, I cried. Even though I knew what was going to happen. It was beautiful.
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Silkworms in a can
Koreans eat some pretty strange things. Dog, probably the most well-known, can still be obtained although it is restricted to special restaurants, is rather expensive and is consequently unlikely to show up in your bulgogi. Some of the snack foods seem to freak the foreigners out even more.
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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…