Korea Photos 2

Here are more pictures from my Korean travels. I would upload more at a time, but blogger.com's photo features are slightly annoying. I could use Flickr, but I would have to pay to have a higher uploading bandwidth. Since I'm a miser, I'll just do it this way.




On our first Sunday in Korea we went to the English Lutheran church. Afterwards we met our friend Soyon in Itaewan, and then went to Insadong, a traditional arts district in Korea. We went to a very nice tea house, had rice cakes, tea, and a nice long chat. While we were there, there was also a marching procession of traditionally dressed Koreans. Lamentably my photographs of that event suffer from my lack of action photography experience. But never mind. As always, click on the pictures for the full size images.

Vendor in Thought

Ahreum and Soyon

Soyon and I

On Monday we went to the Gwanghamun area in the central city of Seoul. We met one of Ahreum's friends who works for Citibank's law department. Afterwards we walked down the newly finished Cheongecheon urban stream. I am really quite impressed with this stream, and it adds a real special something to a city which is otherwise grey, uniform, and architecturally uninspired.

Later that week we met Ahreum's close friend Jinhee. We met her last year in a large group, so I was happy to get to know her better this year. She's actually quite shy at first, but really very friendly.

Jinhee tried on Ahreum's sunglasses. She says this picture doesn't represent her, which is true. But she does look very cool and slightly intimidating.

The next week on Monday, we went to the National arboretum north of Seoul. It was quite a trip by subway and bus to get there, but well worth while. The grounds were expansive and beautiful. We thought we had seen just about everything, and then realized we missed very expansive trails on the northern side of the arboretum. Still, we got about 4 hours of good walking in.

More to come.

Once more into the breach,

Ben