Weekly Comfort Women Protest @ Japanese Embassy in Seoul

Magnified Shadows

Flower Pot

More Bongeunsa

Bongeunsa Bell

Buddha Pouring Water

Swirl

Sunlit Path

Christmas decor at Dongdaemun

Fallen Foliage

Yangjaecheon Fall

Fallen Leaves

Carpet of Ginkgo Leaves

Lotuses

The Arteries of Seoul

Let every day be a good day

Book of the Dead

Che

북촌 도깨비

Light Suspended

Paper Lanterns

The Beauty of Bukchon

Giant Ideas

Obama Victory!

Four very happy young Americans celebrating the election results in Seoul.

The editor of the magazine I work for wrote a Korea Times piece about American expats' reactions to the election, and phoned asking for a "pithy quote" after the election was called. My pithy quote (and the quotes of my above-pictured friends) can be found here.

Bics Turned Flower Vases

Light Packets

50-cent Melted Sugar Cookie

How to feel like a foreigner in Korea...

Go to NANTA - a nonverbal performance incorporating traditional Korean samulnori - and realize that despite being of Korean ethnicity, your sense of humor lies outside the parameters of Korean comedy.


Feel this sense of foreignness reinforced as hundreds of Japanese tourists laugh wildly throughout the show.

"Time Look" - Kwon Sunhan

Silver Poinsettia

Lotus Flower Lantern

Cheonggyecheon

From wastewater repository to concrete-clogged highway foundation,
the Cheonggyecheon was purified and transformed into a central public space by current president Lee Myung-Bak in 2005.

Inwangsan - Shaman Spotting

Inwangsan Mountain in northern Seoul is considered a sacred area where many shamanists pilgrim to visit the city's most famous shamanist shrine, Guksadang, and create makeshift altars among the eroded rocks of the mountain. The sounds of shamanist ceremonies called gut --- chanting accompanied by rhythmic strikes on a bronze jing --- filter through the trees on the rocky hillside, to create an enchanting, spiritual atmosphere.

Rock altar.

Foliage along an Inwangsan path.

Shamanists in prayer.

Flinty mountain surface.

Plastic shelter over makeshift altar.

Underground altar.