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Field Report: Seoul City Hall and Deoksugung, Seoul, South Korea (12 December 2014)
On a cold but lovely Friday morning in Seoul, blessed with clear skies and bright winter sunshine, Diego sets off on a long stroll through the historic centre of the Korean capital.
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Field Report: Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), Paju, South Korea (11 December 2014) – Part 2/2
In a cold, lonely outpost between two warring halves of the same country, there is plenty of silence – but very little peace.
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Field Report: Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), Paju, South Korea (11 December 2014) – Part 1/2
On a freezing winter’s day late in 2014, I briefly traded the dazzling wealth and modernity of Seoul for a no-man’s land of guns, mines, and hundreds of kilometres of barbed wire … a place where the Korean War drags on even now in a strange, almost surreal state of suspended animation. Welcome to the…
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Field Report: Unhyeongung, Seoul, South Korea (10 December 2014)
On a dim, chilly, overcast winter’s day in Seoul, Diego pokes around one of the Korean capital’s smallest royal residences.
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Field Report: Himeji, Japan (25 November 2014)
On the last day of our autumn holiday in the Kansai region, we headed west to visit one of the largest, and arguably one of the most splendid, castles in all of Japan.




