Here is a list of countries and their respective photo and picture galleries. These galleries will always update themselves so you can always come back and visit them to see what the most recent pictures are from your favorite country or place. The "jquery lightbox" or rather the pop-up effect for looking at pictures in more detail has a blow-up button on the top right-hand side. Flickr.com does not add photo description details to this type of photo rss feed so you will only see a title under each photo as you click on them to activate the lightbox. But, Flickr does provide the twenty (20) "most recently uploaded photos" chosen for public viewing by their respective owners for each keyword, or rather in this case, "tag" word. What that means is that you will really be looking at what people are doing or taking pictures of these days in those countries. Have fun exploring the world for your favorite pictures and get to know each country one by one. Enjoy!

Oh, yeah... before I forget... these photos are still copyright of their respective owners so they aren't mine and they aren't yours for keeps, but they are available for public viewing. Feel free to visit flickr.com anytime and check out their "creative commons" section of photos of which you can use for your class presentations depending on their respective licenses. It's a great site!

Korea is one of Japan's closest neighbors and is increasingly becoming very popular with the younger generation. Many young people (from junior high school and up) in Japan can say they enjoy watching Korean drama TV shows and admire Korea's top actors and singers. Also, Korea is a popular weekend destination for many Japanese people with packages usually starting at around 20,000 Japanese Yen during a very good seat-sale. Trips from Fukuoka to Pusan are also possible via a very fast hydrofoil powered cruise ship that will get you there in about 2 hours. Head out in the morning and you'll be eating 'yaki-niku' or Korean BBQ for lunch. Yummmy!

Located east of the Taiwan Straght and southwest of Japan, Taiwan is separated by 180 km to the mainland asian continent. It is a mountainous island and is covered by tropical and subtropical vegitation. One of Taiwan's greatest attraction is the National Palace Museum which is considered to have one of the greatest collections of Chinese art objects in the world (and ranked as one of the world's top five museums). The collection was moved from the Forbidden City in Beijing in 1949 when that governement, the KMT at the time, fled to Taiwan. Many popular activities in this country include baseball, basketball, karaoke, drinking milk tea and that delicious "bubble tea" at many local shops around town.

More pictures are coming soon... If you would like to add your own picture to this gallery, please email us with an attachment to agoodfriend@eigonoteblog.com