Seoul is a bustling, sprawling city of 10 million, ringed by mountains and divided by the Han River.
Nor was it expecting a string of disasters, including the highly publicized collapse of a bridge over the Han river in the capital.
It seeks to introduce visitors to ancient Han ideas about immortality and to explain what life was like at the Han courts, which the tomb-palaces mirror.
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The faded port was spruced up before its liberation anniversary at the end of March, and a new bridge across the Han river is almost complete.
The traditional city centre, Gangbuk, is located on the northern side of the Han while the fast-growing, younger part of the city, Gangnam, lies to the south.
By the time of the Han dynasty - still more than 2, 000 years ago - China's borders already closely resembled those of eastern and central China today.
"We think Pure Networks has done a fantastic job creating a product that can help even the least technical person in the family understand and manage the HAN without having to call anyone, " Smith said.
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He said 36 percent of AOL broadband customers have more than one device on the network, and when the Internet goes down, the customer usually calls the ISP, even though the problem is usually on the HAN.
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Like India, China is as big and diverse as a continent, though it is ethnically far more homogeneous, with more than 90% belonging to the Han majority, and has spent far more of its history as a united nation.
He said they may include the ability to update antivirus programs on every PC with single click, to add guest users to the HAN, to print a file from home at a remote location, and the ability to actually fix the network from a remote location.
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Central Asia has been a geostrategic crossroads of people, capital and ideas since the first Han dynasty caravans traveled the ancient Silk Road.
The official said Mr. Han was carrying an empty pint bottle of vodka at the time of the attack and toxicology results were still pending to determine if Mr. Han was intoxicated at the time of the incident.
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Locals claim that their county has been turning out acrobats for more than 2, 000 years, since the Western Han Dynasty.
Police arriving on the scene discovered Mr. Han caught between the platform and the subway car.
The ceremony was presided over by Hak Ja-han, the widow of Sun Myung Moon, who died in September.
The tradition of not crowning the monarch dates from 1815, when Willem I became the monarch of the newly created Kingdom of the Netherlands, says Han van Bree, a historian who specialises in the Dutch royal family.
Yet amid the performance work Han, at 48, hasn't given up couture.
The latest is Han Man-soo, who withdrew his nomination for antitrust chief Monday amid allegations he stashed millions of dollars overseas to avoid taxes.
The Qin's extremism was also its undoing and it was soon replaced by the more enduring Han dynasty, which sought compromise with aristocratic elites and legitimation through a revived Confucianism.
While toxicology tests have not yet been completed, investigators were looking into the possibility that Mr. Han may have been intoxicated at the time of the incident, the official said.
It is an unlikely spot for a bohemian cultural centre -- along the banks of the barbed wire-lined Han River and within sight of the armed checkpoint watchtowers -- but the galleries, cafes and bookstores exhibit work from some of the finest artists and architects from Korea and abroad.
After the Scotland win, Prime Minister Lee Han-Dong urged the country's largest union not to stage any strike action during the finals.
Umar Abbasi, the freelance photojournalist who took the photos, told the Post he could not physically have reached the victim, Ki Suk Han, in time to pull him from the tracks.
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