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Korea’s eastern coastline is home to a number of port villages that were developed by migrant Japanese settlers during theContinue Reading
Early Modern Architecture in Korea
Korea’s eastern coastline is home to a number of port villages that were developed by migrant Japanese settlers during theContinue Reading
Ganggyeong-eup was an important colonial river port during the Japanese occupation. As industrialization swept the peninsula in the 1960s andContinue Reading
Masan was a small agricultural and fishing village when it opened to foreign trade on May 1st, 1899. Though itsContinue Reading
Samnangjin contained one of the biggest docks on the Nakdong River during the Joseon period. Positioned just south of Miryang,Continue Reading
Cheongdo The county of Cheongdo (Cheongdo-gun) was named centuries before Korea’s early modern period back in 1343. Its modern administrativeContinue Reading
Despite being set apart from the rest of Busan, the island of Gadeok-do actually falls under the jurisdiction of theContinue Reading
Gangseo-gu In 1927, socialist writer Cho Myeong-hui described the Nakdong River as being “the mother’s milk of many lives” inContinue Reading
Nam-gu The majority of the hill houses in Uam-dong and Munhyeon-dong appear to be from the 1960s, with perhaps a handfulContinue Reading
Dong-gu Overview Choryang was a fishing village, which was reportedly ‘“difficult to walk about in the fishing season because ofContinue Reading