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I'll Have a # 70 to Go

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A stupendous idea . Kimchee refrigerator at Yonggungsa Temple Traditional kimchee storage containers As I have mentioned before, the ongoing game of Count the Countries has some hard and fast rules. One of the rules most commonly flaunted by my friends and acquaintances is the one that requires a person to leave airport property in order for the country to count. Merely having a stopover while changing flights is not going to net you a new country. Unless you cheat (you know who you are)... or, in an exciting new development, you happen to fly through Seoul's Incheon Airport. Some S. Korean mastermind has come up with a venture called " Transit Tours ". What they do is provide tours ranging from one to eight hours for people that are, well, in transit. This means that you not only get to leave the airport, thus making the country legitimately count in the grand total, but you get to kill time by sightseeing instead of just sitting in an airport lounge