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The best pictures from Korea
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Children love to have their pictures taken When you have a beard and funny looking clothes, pretty girls come up and ask you to pose with them Daehangno park -- jugglers, musicians, photographers, lovers, drunks, kids, and bemused adults watching it all A family visiting King Munmo's Tomb Anapji Pond serendiptiously preserved many artifacts from its surrounding palace
A monk at Seokguram Grotto does his gong bonging dance Here in the "prosperous farmer's house" at the Korean Folk Village, the family is sitting down to dinner. To get proper temperature and humidity for pickling, fresh-made kimchee was buried in large pots underground for a few months. To visit us, you ring our doorbell. The big eye is a TV cam sending your picture to us The "great room" in our apartment combines kitchen, dining nook, living room, and den.
A kitchen in one of the ubiquitous apartment buildings Korean meals have a minimum of three "ban chan"--that is, small side dishes Local markets cram a lot of things into a small space The city is rife with small shops offering all manner of wares In a "market" area, the small shops are joined by numerous vendors on the sidewalk
In high-end department stores, like Shinsegae seen here, the very latest in gear can be bought Subway stations are clean, brightly lit, and equipped withe gas masks The digital sign at the top shows advertising between trains. As a train approaches the station, a train icon crawls across, reaching the edge as the train whooshes in Horses are relegated to shows at museums like the Korean Folk Village outside Suwon The intercity express trains, "KTX," are luxurious and run at speeds well in excess of a hundred miles an hour
A gateway frames your first view of the throne room at Chongdoek Palace Old roofs are invariably built like this: crests and valleys of tile all laid onto rafters supported by beams Many of the "edge-cap tile rows (as at top center) are graced with monkeys and gargoyles At the Folk Village, some of the roofs have been allowed to develop their own eco-systems "Ubiquitous apartment buildings." Buildings of this same design are everywhere, even dotting the country-side between cities
Many farms are covered to protect crops from sunlight and insects, thus increasing value. It seems that all land is covered with either farms or ubiquitous apartments Looking south from Seoul Tower On the (one!) sunny afternoon I took this picture from my balcony Despite the rain, I was able to get some nice color in this shot of the National Museum in Seoul The escalators in the National Museum
"Don Quixote" (National Treasure #91); a photo of the reproduction I bough A metal dragon. Probably an incense burner like Don Quixote The best pot photo from the national museum If you really want eternal peace, why not get get buried in a pot. Pots are the longest-lived artifacts of bygone civilizations One of the dozen "cave" altars at Golgulsa
Seoul Tower is visible from most places in the city South Korea is the third most wired nation Wire guards the boundary to the North Near the DMZ, a sign of hope. Someone lofted this amzing string of kites The royals knew how to have beauty at hand to escape reality
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