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Just as farm families have watched their children abandon the homestead for life in the city, a tiny community of skin divers in the Korean Strait constitutes the last generation that will earn its living underwater.
George Heymont: Water, Water, Everywhere George Heymont 2011
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For those who would like to see good relations between Japan and South Korea, it is regrettable that are too many folks wearing false whiskers on both sides of the Korean Strait.
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It's a short [477] hop across the Korean Strait. to Pusan.
Space Michener, James 1982
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The island of Tsushima in the Korean Strait was seized by the forces of Kublai Khan in 1280 as the base of their attack upon Japan; [875] and when in 1857 the
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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Japanese destroyers and duly reached Chifu, whither she had been sent with dispatches from Admiral Vitgeft, requesting that the Vladivostock squadron might be dispatched to assist him in his proposed passage through the Korean Strait.
Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War Harry Collingwood 1886
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Chemulpo and destroy the Japanese squadron and transports upon their arrival there; or he might pass through the Korean Strait northward to
Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun A Story of the Russo-Japanese War Harry Collingwood 1886
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With extraordinary skill he had lain long in ambush, not a whisper as to the location of his fleet being permitted to make its way to the western world; and when Rojestvensky ventured into the yawning jaws of the Korean Strait he was in utter ignorance of the lurking-place of his grimly waiting foes.
Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Charles Morris 1877
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Before Rojestvensky lay two routes to choose between, the more direct one to Vladivostok through the narrow Korean Strait, or the longer one eastward of the great island of Honshu.
Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Charles Morris 1877
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The North Korean divisions nearly pushed the South Korean and American divisions into the Korean Strait.
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It’s nice that politicians and pop stars will get their chance to promote good relations between the countries, but everyday people in the coastal areas on both sides of the Korean Strait may be a little blasé about the official events.
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