Geordie feast in the Far East.(News)

From: Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) | Date: May 29, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: By Nick Whitten

It could almost be Newcastle's Dean Street.

But the scene above is thousands of miles away, in South Korea.

The Far East has met the North East after the world's first English Education Theme Park was built in South Korea's Gyeonggi Province, thanks to help from the North East Assembly.

And now folk from the region are being encouraged to live and work in the village to help Koreans learn all there is to know about...

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