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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Norbert Paxton has been on the road almost non-stop since 2002 – the same year that he first pitched up in the Land of Morning Calm – and has now travelled to more than 100 countries. However, the Koreas remain hovering around the very top of his favourite-countries-on-earth list: he blames the eternal pleasures of makgeolli, galbi and pajeon; the otherworldly ridiculousness of North Korea; and, on both sides of the border, the wonderful Koreans themselves.

Acknowledgements

Norbert Paxton would like to thank all those who assisted him during his time in Korea, including Seoul chums Jason Strother and David Carruth for coming down to Jeju; Michael Spavor for his highly entertaining cameo appearance; sister Nicole for her own brief visit; Matt Crawford for letting me kip at his apartment for a couple of weeks; Mina Kim in Suwon; Eugene Hong for the feasts in Gwangju and Sokcho; Steven Borowiec for the chance meeting and copious bottles of mak in Danyang; Matt Baldwin for the night out in Daejeon; Yeongae Min and Woni for the fun drives out of town; the Seoul Tourism Organisation for their assistance in the capital; the Gangwon tourist authorities for their assistance in the north-east; and Nick, Simon and Eivind Thomassen for their assistance and company a bit further north again.

Readers’ updates

Thanks to all the readers who have taken the time to write in with comments and suggestions (and apologies if we’ve inadvertently omitted or misspelt anyone’s name):

David Brengelmann, Stephen P. Cahill, Daniel Crewe, Diane Cubey, Jill Fitzgerald, Glyn Garratt, Rolf Mattes, Prakash Menon, Brenda Patterson, Kara Richardson, Thorsten Schmidt, Flavia Woodwark.

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