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Ja Jong, (that spelling is almost certainly wrong, but at least I remember his name!) our resident translator is not only an excellent translator, but is saving our arses on a regular basis with his local knowledge and willingness to do whatever it takes to make this project a success. Love your work buddy!

I’m just taking this afternoon off, and staying at an apartment made available to us by one of the wonderful folks at KFEM. It will be nice if I get a chance to experience some beautiful sides of Korea before I go back to Melbourne. The ugly, stinking, polluted, heavily populated, industrial wasteland of a…

Juan, our Spanish activist, with his first ever tortilla! His mother would be proud!

Our dome is now waterproof (we hope! we’re expecting rain today) led by some very fine work by Ben last night, two points of contact, nice and safe.

Whale Museum Art. Interesting trick the sculpted whale is doing.

Another busy day at the Whale Embassy! Local interest in our Whale Embassy seems to be increasing every day. Even just walking down the street feels better now, the locals wielding smiles and hellos.

The Americans have arrived, Jim (yes, another Jim campaigner) and Steph.

Introducing another of our crew, Katrin. She’s one of the two German activists here at the Whale Embassy.

Jim, our campaigner on the ground here in Ulsan, has headed back to Amsterdam for some time out (and to catch up on some work) We’ll miss you Jim! See you soon.

“A postage stamp will be released to commemorate the 57th International Whaling Commission in Ulsan. A total of 1.6 million stamps will be distributed to post offices across the nation, starting from May 27, 2005, the opening day of the IWC meeting. A commemorative stamp has been planned by Ulsan city government and designed by…