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Gammunguk of Gimcheon: Discovering a Forgotten Kingdom of Ancient Korea Did you know that the quiet fields and villages of Gammumyeon in Gimcheon, South Korea, were once the center of a small ancient kingdom known as Gammunguk (甘文國)?This is a personal story for me — my father is from this very area, and I often…
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Have you ever seen a mountain so flat at the top that it looks like someone sliced it off with a knife?In the southeastern part of South Korea, there’s a little-known mountain that completely defies expectations.Welcome to Cheonsaengsan (천생산) in Gumi, a city located in North Gyeongsang Province (Gyeongbuk)—a region more famous for its tech…
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(Old) passport and (new) passport 🇰🇷 Korea’s New Passport — A Stunning Upgrade After 10 Years I recently renewed my passport — and wow, what a surprise!It’s been 10 years, and I wasn’t expecting much.But when I actually held the new one in my hands, I couldn’t help but say:“Wait… this is beautiful.” 🔍 What’s…
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A reflection on how genuine conversations and communities can become powerful sources of blog traffic—beyond just SEO. This post explores the shift from chasing search rankings to building meaningful human connections through writing. From Chasing Search to Facing Conversations It’s been about a month since I started blogging.I’ve written over 60 posts and cautiously wait…
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From ancient East Asian calligraphy to modern digital documents, the direction of writing has shifted dramatically. Here’s why we moved from vertical to horizontal writing—and what we lost along the way. Most people today assume that text is naturally written left to right. But not long ago, Korean writing was vertical—flowing from top to bottom,…
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A poetic experiment in Korean vertical writing. Slow your pace, trace the words downward, and feel the rhythm of language unfold as time itself. 끝. 가 세 한 그 가 우끔 로 줄 러 로 리은 쓰 한 나 는 는글 기 줄 세 빠 세도 한 내 로 르 로조 때 려 는 다…
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The Final Boundary Shared by All Systems — The Withdrawal of Market Participants ✩ It Began With a Question “Does advanced capitalism eventually lead to communism?” This wasn’t just a provocative question. It led to a deeper reflection: How do giant systems like capitalism and communism collapse? The two are fundamentally different: Yet strangely, both…
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Today, I beat GPT. Yes, the GPT.The powerful language model that seemed unbeatable—until it met the unbreakable wall of a simple yet brilliant 3×3 Korean language puzzle. 개똥아똥쌌니아니오 Just three lines.Perfect horizontally.Perfect vertically.A divine stroke of linguistic symmetry. At first, GPT was confident.“It’s totally possible to generate sentences that work both horizontally and vertically,” it…
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Lately, YouTube’s algorithm has been showing me something unexpected—videos that blend songs I know with scenes I didn’t expect.Music that already exists,paired with completely different visuals. And yet…somehow it just works.Because there are people out there who know how to make it work. (If you know the song or the movie/anime,you’ll probably love seeing how…
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