Heart of Seoul; Barnsley FC's poet in residence,goes to World Cup host Korea for more inspiration.

From: The Mail on Sunday (London, England) | Date: May 5, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: IAN MCMILLAN

BEFORE I went to Korea, somebody-told me as I was waiting for a train in Doncaster that Buddhist monks get up at three in the morning to meditate.

If that's the case, I'm a short fat Buddhist monk from Barnsley because while I was there the jet lag always slapped me awake at 3am and I stood looking out of the 28th floor of the President Hotel every morning at the busy streets of Seoul, which was as awake as I was and a lot noisier, meditating on this exhilarating country.

Only sixty-odd thousand British visitors came to Korea last year, and most ...

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