Sunday, September 17, 2006

Korea (조선 or 한국)

Korea! What a great country! I loved it! It's strange because as much as I didn't really enjoy China or Japan, Korea is just in between both countries. But you have a much greater feeling of Westernization. First of all, Seoul is a city tremendously modern with some many impressive traditional palaces. The streets are nice, the climate is gentle in summer (and very cold in winter), people are really really friendly (wow, soooo different from Chinese...!!) and much more awake than Japanese when dealing with foreigners (probably because their English is better).

Another thing is their religion. Although there are many religions in Korea such as Buddhism, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism and Confucianism, you have an enormous amount of churches. Such buildings provide the city with a western feeling when compared to other Asian cities.

The worst thing about Korea? Their tremendously horrible and ugly cars (Hyundai, Kia, Daewoo and Ssangyong) invade the streets!

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