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May 11, 2011
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Oh, the irony

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This is an underpass connecting Haebangchon and Gyeonidan that I often pass through. It is often colored in graffiti. The graffiti was once again stripped clean and the graffitier (is that correct?) vowed to not spray paint on this wall ever again.
Oh, the irony.



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Daniel
Daniel Gray is a Korean adoptee that returned to Korean in 2005 because he wanted to try and find his birth mother and to learn about Korean culture. He started a restaurant review blog in 2007, www.seouleats.com, that became a local and international hit. He and his blog has been featured in the New York Times, Monocle Magazine, The Kimchi Chronicles, Bizarre Foods, Rudy Maxa, Olive Magazine, Euronews and much more. He now is a partner at O’ngo Food Communications (www.ongofood.com), which is a culinary tourism and consulting company that offers Korean cooking classes and restaurant tours to travelers. Their food tours and cooking classes are ranked as one of the top attractions in Seoul according to tripadvisor.
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