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| Cherry blossoms near the riverside in Yecheon |
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| Ji Hye and I take an afternoon trip out to the small farming village she grew up in. It's small and quiet enough that when we arrived an old woman near the taxi we were getting out of cried: "oh, looks like we've got a special guest here today!" |
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| A statue of King Sejong, who created the Korean alphabet, Hangul, sits in front of the now-closed elementary school. Children from the village now attend classes in a more populous area. |
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| The old slide evidently still sees lots of use from children in the village. These girls are all sisters. |
