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January 02, 2006
Taking my first bullet [train]
Just outside of Seoul, we ran into dense fog covering an industrial site.
While Seoul is a modern, glaring city - the rest of the country remind visitors like me of South Korea's industrially driven development and of how recent it all has been.
The divide between rural and urban South Korea is threatening to grow due to trade liberalization. South Korean farmers have been very vocal protestors at APEC and WTO summits and recently, several were killed during clashes with South Korean police. The opposition party had called for the resignation of the police chief.
Posted by rxu at January 2, 2006 09:19 PM