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Kaesong, North Korea

NORTH KOREA | Saturday, 17 March 2012 | Views [405]

Next stop was Kaesong in North Korea. When I got out of the air port, I saw 2 buildings that were on both sides of the road, the buildings looked a lot like mini sky scrapers, the large buildings looked like work spaces for the North Koreans. Kaesong is right on the border of North Korea's country grounds. Anyway, the first thing that I made sure to do was to check into a hotel next, I went to my first famous site of Kaesong, the Koryo Museum. The museum was a central institute of education in the Koryo dynasty. The main idea of what the Koreans believe in is the acceptance and loyalty to one's lineage. As I walked to my next site to see, I saw a few homes, and they were fairly large, and I greeted the people and asked how they use their living space, and I learned that the father is the head of the family, and the oldest son and him get the most respect. I also realized that the houses were tightly packed, with just about three acres per houshold, which is if you do the math 300 families per every 1,000 acres. Next, I went to one of the work spaces of the North Koreans, and they told me that they work 40 hours per every week, and when you think about that, it is pretty close to the average american working average per week. The next morning, I went on a bus to go see a concrete wall created by South Korea, with the help of us the Americans, and the wall was on the border, they stopped at about 3 miles and figured that the wall would be too costly to risk the money, so they ordered a stop of the building of the wall. Next, I went to the newly built Industrial Village, created by the South Korean company called Hyundai. After that, I figured out that North Korea is slightly larger than Indiana, and is mostly tropical, but with slightly dry areas. After that I took a rest and ended my trip to Kaesong.

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