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Love, Death and Kimchi on the Busan Perimeter

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North - East Asia Love Hotel Japan and Korea are quite big on 'love hotels.' You only have to read Murakami's After Dark to Understand the nature of 'love hotels.' They are pay by the hour establishments. I stayed in mine in South Korea for three days. I wondered why the baseball female visitors wore caps pulled-down bug-eyed sunglasses and large. Why the hotel reception was a hatch simultaneously call up taxis and drank coffee in 7-11 Styrofoam take-away coffee cups. Joytel: on the Busan Perimeter The Nakdong River The Nakdong River  was important in the Korean War (25th June 1950 - 27th July 1953). The Battle of Naktong Bulge was  an engagement between the US and North Korean  Forces early in the Korean War from August 5-19, 1950 in the vicinity of Yongsan (Yeongsan  county) and the Naktong river in South Korea . It was a part of the Battle of Pusan ​​Perimeter  and was one of several large engagements fought