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Green - Outside Korean War Memorial by Gretcholi on Flickr.

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South Korea held an elaborate ceremony at Kyongbok Palace in Seoul to celebrate the return of nearly 300 Chosun Dynasty royal books looted by French troops in 1866. Click through for the full story and photos from the event. 

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell tells South Korea media that China was surprised by Pyongyang’s decision to cut off inter-Korea talks. Click here for more on Campbell’s visit: http://on.wsj.com/kVrf4U.

The size of your dream doesn’t matter. What matters is what you do to make that dream come true because the only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dream is you. All things are possible for those who have faith and believe in themselves, their hard work, determination, and dedication. I once heard, “Dream as you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” I keep my dreams alive and never give up and try to make that dream happen.  You shouldn’t be pushed by your problems, but be led by your dreams. Dreams are like stars, you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny. Always dream with your eyes open. The more dreams you have, the better chance you have of one coming true. 

“The night is silent, and in its silence, dreams are hidden.”

-F.D.

A South Korea’s K1 tank fires smoke shells during a joint military drill between South Korea and the US in Paju near the inter-Korean border, aimed at deterring North Korea’s military threat.

Addicted (Jungdok) is a 2002 South Korean film directed by Park...

I mean I’ll wait for them! But.. 

South Korea is an amazing country, with a population of around 48 million.

There are around 50 TEDx events in South Korea, which means that there is a TEDx event for at least every million people! (Japan and China have 13 and 37 each respectively.)

For TED 2011, TEDx Organizers in South Korea could host TEDxLive events — a simulcast event showing TED 2011, live from Long Beach, California.

I came to know about TEDxSeochoLive event through David Choo, one of the event’s organizers. Being a big TED fan, I felt enthusiastic to know about this event happening in Seoul. I decided to attend this event, even though it started at 1am in the morning.

Although the next day was a working day, many people showed up which depicts their love and zeal for TED.

I reached the venue around 10:15pm, three hours earlier than the actual start. I was warmly welcomed and greeted by all the TEDxSeocho organizers, which was moment of rejoice for me.

The architecture of the Club 500 — the event’s venue — resembles the old style houses in Pakistan. It was made of clay with big pillars in between. In contrast to Korean traditional houses, its roof was at reasonable height from ground.

The TED stream began at 1:00am Korea time from a NASA space shuttle. It was the best start of a show I have ever seen!

There are few great speakers lined up for that day — many people were interested the session where Bill Gates was the guest curator. The successive sessions were separated with an hour break — it was a good opportunity to take nap!

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At 5am, everybody was still excited.

I enjoyed the talks from Deb Roy, Bill Ford, Indra Nooyi ,Amina az-Zubair and Salman Khan.

I would say “thumbs up” to the TEDxSeocho Organizers —

In between session breaks, we enjoyed a “cake” celebration, which ignited new passion to listen rest of the Talks. The event was schedule to last till 11:45am, but many people had to leave earlier for either for work or school.

Fortunately this was not the end; we look forward to show simulcast of TEDGlobal in July 2011. This time it is under a different TEDx name — TEDxItaewon.

Written by Hassan Abid, PR Manager, TEDxItaewon.

Lots of love at the N Seoul Tower.

oh hell ya

Oh joy.

Paju is a 2006 South Korean film directed by Park Chan-ok.

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man

fuck america

im moving

I Have One Emotion

‘Along a fence on the ground terrace attached to the N Seoul Tower on Mt. Namsan in central Seoul, thousands of locks have been hung to represent the love of their owners. The keys for the locks are often thrown away as an ensurance the sweethearts’ vows to never separate’

These are my photos on my 1st day in Korea :D

So much planning has gone into this trip; I can hardly believe I’m actually here. This country is unlike anything I imagined. I’m pretty tired right now because there’s a fifteen hour time change and I’ve been up for at least nineteen consecutive hours, so I’ll try to go into more detail later.

Went out for dinner with a Korean friend - He ordered us Gochang… or in English, pig intestines. It was a little bit like eating spicy rubber, but honestly? I’ve eaten worse.

Mmm, love the taste of stomach bile & regurgitated BK.
I hate BK forever.
Thanks South Korea. I was beginning to think I’d never puke while I was here. 

A burger wrap from Lotteria, South Korea. I can’t say I cared too much for the burger itself. Strange sauce. 

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