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Korea
A peninsula and former country of eastern Asia between the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan. Site of an ancient civilization dating to the 12th century B.C., the peninsula was united as a kingdom in the 7th century A.D. and despite a Mongol invasion (13th century) remained unified until the Japanese occupation of 1910 to 1945. After World War II the Soviet- and U.S.-occupied territories formed separate republics, and a North Korean invasion of the south led to the Korean War (1950–1953). The peninsula is now divided between North Korea and South Korea.
Korea, sixth edition, is completely revised and features:
- the only up-to-date guidebook to South and North Korea
- Korean script and translations
- increased emphasis on Korean society and culture
- an entirely new Korean food chapter with a handy cuisine glossary
Covering both North and South Korea, this guide provides a historical and political background and features accommodation options for all budgets. It includes extensive coverage of national parks in South Korea. All place names are given in Korean and Hangul script.
Densely forested mountains, colourful Buddhist temples and sleek modern cities – discover all this and much more with this bestselling guidebook. Korea’s welcoming people, unique culture and incomparable cuisine make it one of the great destinations of Northeast Asia. Whatever your pleasure, we cover it all: North, South, eats, the works!
1.BE INSPIRED by our new highlights and itineraries sections
2.GET AROUND with the help of over 100 detailed maps, including a full-colour map of Seoul
3.DINE OUT in the best restaurants with our Korean menu decoder
4.UNDERSTAND – from religion to politics and war, our history and culture chapters will put you in the picture
5.GO NORTH! Check out our North Korea chapter – even stranger and more sinister than the plot of the Ian Fleming novel you bought at the airport
作者简介
Martin Robinson
Martin's first assignment for Lonely Planet was a tough but fantastic 4WD trip around Queensland and Northern Territory for the Outback Australia guide. This was followed by work on a completely revamped Seoul city guide and a stint as coordinating author of Korea. He has also written chapters for two Lonely Planet bestsellers, India and New Zealand, as well as contributing a section to Experimental Travel. In July 2005 he is off to tackle Seoul again.
Lonely Planet Publications is the world’s largest independent guidebook publisher with more than 500 titles in print, over 400 staff and offices in London and Oakland as well as the head office in Melbourne.
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Highlights
Getting Started
Itineraries
The Authors
Snapshot
History
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Excerpt from the book:
Our latest guidebooks have loads of fresh features, including a brand new Itineraries chapter. The following samples from our 2004 Korea guide provide ideas for a spiritually enlightening tour of the South and a taste of surreal, Stalinist, unexplored North Korea:
Temple Pilgrimage, South Korea: Located in beautiful forest-covered mountain areas are some of Asia’s most outstanding Buddhist temples. Their remoteness makes the pilgrimage by bus difficult and the journey covers around 1500km (allow 10 days), but it begins with a single step. Nearly all the temples date back many centuries, and although the buildings are often relatively new, they follow the traditional style with colourful decoration around the eaves, murals, striking roof lines, latticework doors and superbly carved and painted ceilings.
Buses from Seoul run to Guinsa, which is the impressive headquarters of the Cheontae sect and quite different from any other Korean temple, with multi-storey modern buildings lining both sides of a steep valley. It has a Utopian atmosphere and free vegetarian meals are available. From here take a bus to Danyang and on to Gongju and Magoksa, which is an ancient and traditional temple with a hall of 1000 pint-sized disciples that are all slightly different. Then head southeast to Daegu and on to stunning Haeinsa, which houses an amazing library of 80,000 World Heritage 14th-century woodblocks that were carved in an effort to ward off Mongolian invaders. Back in Daegu, an hour on the bus takes you to Gimcheon, the gateway to Jikjisa, an impressive temple dating back to the 5th century. A soldier monk from here, Sa-myeong, led the fight against Japanese invaders in 1592. Monks were not pacifists in those days when the nation was under threat.
Return to Daegu and take a bus to Jeonju and another bus to Jinan, the access town for Tapsa, a tiny temple surrounded by two ‘horse ear’ mountains a
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