i try to do some trips outside the capital, and i go to the capital of the old Silla Empire, Gyeong ju. the town is really spread out, so i rent a bike and cycle around. i dont see a single non-Korean the whole time i am there. i wander through parks and watch people working. i have a massive meal in a restaurant after barely making out, having just learned enough of the alphabet to get by. it seems impossible to put in words how spectacular this city must have been back in its heyday when it united the Korean peninsula for the first time....back when Europeans were locked in the provinciality of the dark ages, the Silla Kingdom conquered the other two kingdoms in the area,Baekje in 660 and Goguryeo in 668. we were behind even then....
accidentally, i wander past a wedding party and get invited to join, and i do with pleasure
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