Apr 30, 2013 - The regime impacts

I woke up irritated with the regime today. I think little things have mounted up and the dark bedroom last night really got to me. It was capped by being told we couldn't get out of the coach to take photographs of a mountain. But, the feeling wore off, eventually ..... We set off for a two hour drive to go into the Kumgang Mountains, renowned for its butterflies and flowers, although it was far too cold today. The mountains were still snowcapped and were by far the largest we had seen in DPRK so far. We went for a three hour hike to...

Oct 16, 2005 - Krackling Korea

Copyright 2005 David Rich 1700 Words jdavidrich@yahoo.com K R A C K L I N G K O R E A Korea crackled from my first day there. I fortuitously arrived on the annual extravaganza of Chusok (also Chu Suk), the annual mid-September Thanksgiving/harvest festival giving Koreans an excuse to pig out, dress up, visit relatives and frolic around their national shrines. The foremost fiesta exploded at the Gyeongbokgung World Heritage Palace in Seoul. I stumbled on it crammed with thousands of Korean kids in colorful costume, the cutest little...