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Tuesday, 03 March 2009 11:27 | Written by Leonardo Alberto Dal Zovo

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In this moment in this website you'll find a lot of information about South Korea: I've been staying there for three months at the beginning of 2009 to visit this extraordinary country and to take part to a go class (Baduk in korean) at the King's Field Baduk International Training Center managed by the 4p professional Kim Sung Rae.

During this stay I've being visiting for some days the magnificent Japan: an incredible country which I want to visit again to better know the culture and the lifestyle that impressed me.

I'm planning to create another section dedicated to China, fantastic country where I've been staying for one month at the end of 2008 to travel on the road e to participate to the first edition of the World Mind Sports Games in Beijing.

Meanwhile... Have fun!!

Last Updated (Saturday, 01 August 2009 18:00)

Random article on tourism in Korea

Odaesan National Park and Woljeongsa Temple

Thursday morning some of us joined Kim Sung Ryong and Hong Seul Ki in a tour in the East Coast of South Korea: our first stop was at the Odaesan National Park (오대산국립공원). This park is one of the most beautiful of the country and you should absolutely take a look around it for temples, valleys, rivers and forests. A very important place to visit is the Woljeongsa Temple (월정사). It's a very nice compound of temples: the main temple is Jeokgwangjeon (적광전) with a 9-stone story pagoda just in front of it. For lunch we ate for free in a temple, Sajaam Buddhist Hermitage on Jungdae Peak, on the way to another small temple up on a hill and very isolated, but really nice, in the same direction of Sangwonsa Temple.

Random article on King's Baduk Center

Guest for the first day

An unknown person talked in the Opening Ceremony, but nobody of us (I think) recognised him. At the end of the ceremony, our teacher told us he is a very popular 9d professional, he was a title holder and now he also provide game reviews on Baduk TV. He is Kim Sung Ryong (김성룡). He immediately started to play a simultaneous game with 3 people.