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Who is Homer Bezaleel Hulbert? He originally visited Korea in 1886 with two other instructors, Delzell A. Bunker and George W. Gilmore, to teach English at the Royal English School. There, he taught the children of Korean royalty and nobility. In 1901 he founded the magazine The Korea Review. Emperor Gwangmu (formerly "King Gojong") then placed him in charge of creating a Western-style middle sc..

In Korea, salt was very valuable in the old days. In Korea, the only way to obtain salt was from the sea. The places where salt was obtained from the sea were called salt fields. Salt farms are very labor intensive. Nevertheless, in the old days, many people worked in salt fields. Most of the time when salt can be produced is limited to summer, so it was close to hard labor. (Until hundreds of y..