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DevonRex

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16. Are you Korean?
Thu May 16, 2013, 02:50 PM
May 2013

My son lives there! I'm sad because I think he will live there permanently. He loves it and the people. The health care system there is unbelievable. He has visited Japan, too. Took a ferry over. He liked it too. It was very expensive, though.

I know about the dispute regarding the islands. But I didn't know about the disputed territory on the mainland that China claims. It is all so very interesting. I'm going there this winter. It will be cold, I know.

Is Park so much more conservative than previous leaders there? The society as a whole seems to be fairly conservative in some ways yet liberal in others, like health care. The students work so very hard, and much is expected of them. Higher education is relatively inexpensive there, too.

I'm really excited to be going. I can't explain it very well but it feels like the culture is an amazing kaleidescope of beautiful, ancient traditions and racing modernity.

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