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Seoul | City Of Palaces & Walls

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Ranked at 81st. according to Mercer's Quality Of Living City Ranking 2024, Seoul city comes after Singapore (#30), Tokyo (#56), Yokohama (#58), & Osaka-Kobe (#68) for cities in Asia. Known as a city of old & new, Seoul city retains it's old charm like Bukchon & Ikseon-dong, juxtaposed with it's high tech fast paced lifestyle and sky-scrapers like Gangnam. The Republic Of Korea is one of the 4 Asian Tigers that took development and technological advancement to the next level, experienced unprecedented industrialization which was coined as The East Asian Miracle. Just look around your house and you can easily identify many Korean-made household goods. One of the ingredients that made the country so successful is the government's investment in human capital, i.e. education.


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I graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa with a M.A. in Economics, 1996. Our favorite pastimes are travelling, hiking and photography, to name a few. All the photos and videos featured in this site were taken by myself or by my wife, Rosemary. Both of us were born and raised in Malaysia and naturalized U.S. citizen.  Aloha and thanks for visiting my personal blog.

 

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