EAN: 9788970940717

ON THE ROAD IN SOUTH KOREA - MARK A DAKE KARTON...

Just prior to the flight of Mark Dake's parents from Toronto to visit him in Seoul - where he
was teaching English - his mother phoned to ask if they needed to get inoculated for disease.
Realizing how little North Americans know about South Korea  Dake decided to write a travel
book  to introduce the country to foreigners. He purchased an old car  and  with his best
friend  Kim Heju as translator  spent an intensive  exhaustive four months driving 5 000 miles
through the nation's villages  towns  mountains  plains and islands. Along the way  he
discovered some strange things: an island of lepers  a Shangril-La where locals live past 100 
a seaside village where everyone is a diver. He kidnapped a dog destined to be stew  and he
swam in waters where a 2 500-pound great white shark had been hauled aboard a fishing trawler.
He interviewed a would-be king and an elderly woman imprisoned during the Japanese occupation.
Citing overwork  Heju temporarily quit the journey after six weeks. Two other translators
bailed prematurely. Dake had a million places to explore and needed answers. If fellow
travelers couldn't keep up  tough luck  it was full-steam ahead! Dake  a former reporter  has
spent about twenty years between 1995 and 2022 living and working in South Korea. He leaves no
stones unturned on this fascinating journey through an ancient and modern land.

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