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Authorities temporarily suspend suspicious international parcels on safety concerns 21:05 July 21, 2023 SEOUL, July 21 (Yonhap) -- The Postal Service temporarily suspended suspicious international packages, as concerns were growing over some random parcels that might contain an unspecified...

The economics/politics behind South Korea's unique property market and the recent decline in the extremely high prices it has generated are extremely complex, but this new twist—the deaths of a number of mass-owning landlords who may not be what they appear—is murkier still. I take a personal...

I was looking for a story about a team that had gone to measure 'The worlds smallest island' and when they got there and measured it, they were just about to leave when they spotted another island nearby which was even smaller. I couldn't find that story, but while looking I did discover this...

This can serve as the inaugural post on a thread that I was surprised to find did not already exist. I've been too busy to post this for a couple of weeks, but I recently visited Sokcho on the west coast of Korea for the second time and found something novel: 갯배 명당 / "(The) Cable Ferry Famous...

1.Shifting / vanished river; Gyeongju City outskirts On my first trip to Korea last century, I literally stumbled upon an archeological site over 500 years old called Poseokjeong. It features a carved stone trough which originally decanted water from a neighbouring river just next to it...

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