I love the city, even though frustrated by the culture which is increasingly materialistic and at the same time places less and less value on knowledge. But the city itself has a cool freshness about it, as if the whole place is submerged in fresh water, there is water everywhere, on its grassy mounts, the beaches and streams and forests...

I stopped in Seoul twice, and both times was astounded by its size from the air. What's more astounding is that this was the capital of one of the poorest countries in the world just 50 years ago - everything about South Korea is new prosperity, the result of a hard-nosed work ethic at the first opportunity to shake off the shackles of centuries of oppression from China, Japan - and now, in another form, from America...
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