A guide to online book buying, Jeju, South Korea

October 19, 2008 by Dan Nabben · 1 Comment
Filed under: Books

‘Whatthebook.com.’ Based in Seoul. Run by Chris Chiavetta. Web site is available in both English and Korean. Domestic bank-to-bank transfers and Paypal available. Free shipping on most orders of two books or more, but there are exceptions. It is essentially Amazon.com for Korea. Books priced on What the Book will be three or four thousand won more than on Amazon to cover the per-book shipping cost. There are certain combinations of books and certain order sizes that are cheaper through What the Book while some are cheaper through Amazon – some significantly so, and some not. What the Book’s other distinct advantages are its used bookstore and fast books - new books in stock; delivered in two days.

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Book review, ‘A walk through the land of miracles’, Jeju, South Korea

August 30, 2008 by Dan Nabben · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Jeju & Korean Culture

Not long before Seoul was to host the 1988 Summer Olympics and, as a result of which by a strange twist of fate, best-selling author Simon Winchester’s newspaper sent him to Korea to find out what he could of the Hermit Kingdom – as very little was known of it at the time.
Using the diary of Hendrick Hamel* as a model, Winchester decides to walk from Moseulpo (모슬포) on Jeju’s southwest coast all the way to Panmunjeom (판문점) at the DMZ.

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