The Secret Map
Travel Essays by Simon Slater
Category: Korea
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Just the other day a homeless man entered a restaurant I was eating at. I was in Suwon, a city just outside of Seoul, where the sightings of vagabonds are few and far between. In a country of burgeoning wealth, the man’s entrance had been a surprise. Homelessness here is usually visible in a collection of…
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“You can even say the Samsung chairman is more powerful than the President of South Korea. Korean people have come to think of Samsung as invincible and above the law.” Woo Suk-Hoon, Author. South Korea is a corporation nation. The most common ambition to aim for here is to work for a large organization such…
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