Comments on: A Mountain with Seven Limbs, or Maybe Only Five http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/25/a-mountain-with-seven-limbs-or-maybe-only-five/ Korea... in Blog Format Wed, 3 Dec 2008 06:25:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: sewing http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/25/a-mountain-with-seven-limbs-or-maybe-only-five/#comment-47316 sewing Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:53:24 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/25/a-mountain-with-seven-limbs-or-maybe-only-five/#comment-47316 Good for you! Good for you!

]]> By: sanshinseon http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/25/a-mountain-with-seven-limbs-or-maybe-only-five/#comment-47301 sanshinseon Sun, 27 Aug 2006 10:12:59 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/25/a-mountain-with-seven-limbs-or-maybe-only-five/#comment-47301 Yeah, i've looked that over, got some good ideas from it, should link to it i guess -- but i'm mostly interested in pages in English (creating and linking-to), to "get the word out" to the rest of the World in a useful way... There's plenty in Korean, and it's easy to find for them and the miniscule cadre of non-Koreans who read Han-geul fluently. But Koreans seem weirdly unable to get good info on what's really fascinating here out in correct & attractive & comprehensible English -- it seems they need a little help with that. So i do the little that i can... Yeah, i’ve looked that over, got some good ideas from it,
should link to it i guess — but i’m mostly interested in
pages in English (creating and linking-to), to “get the
word out” to the rest of the World in a useful way…
There’s plenty in Korean, and it’s easy to find for them
and the miniscule cadre of non-Koreans who read Han-geul
fluently. But Koreans seem weirdly unable to get good info
on what’s really fascinating here out in correct & attractive
& comprehensible English — it seems they need a little help
with that. So i do the little that i can…

]]> By: sewing http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/25/a-mountain-with-seven-limbs-or-maybe-only-five/#comment-47296 sewing Sun, 27 Aug 2006 07:10:05 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/25/a-mountain-with-seven-limbs-or-maybe-only-five/#comment-47296 David, have you ever checked out the 백두 대간 site? (http://www.angangi.com/) The site's creator has a lot of material on traditional Korean views of the peninsula's mountainous geography.... David, have you ever checked out the 백두 대간 site? (http://www.angangi.com/)

The site’s creator has a lot of material on traditional Korean views of the peninsula’s mountainous geography….

]]> By: sanshinseon http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/25/a-mountain-with-seven-limbs-or-maybe-only-five/#comment-47294 sanshinseon Sun, 27 Aug 2006 05:41:09 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/25/a-mountain-with-seven-limbs-or-maybe-only-five/#comment-47294 > What mapping software did you use to make > the image at the top of the page? Don't have any mapping software... that is a Korean hiking-map that i scanned, then inserted English labels over, same as all throughout my site. > What mapping software did you use to make
> the image at the top of the page?

Don’t have any mapping software… that is a Korean hiking-map
that i scanned, then inserted English labels over, same as all
throughout my site.

]]> By: sewing http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/25/a-mountain-with-seven-limbs-or-maybe-only-five/#comment-47291 sewing Sun, 27 Aug 2006 03:25:26 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/25/a-mountain-with-seven-limbs-or-maybe-only-five/#comment-47291 More like upper 70s, now that I think of it. Sorry for going OT. More like upper 70s, now that I think of it.

Sorry for going OT.

]]> By: sewing http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/25/a-mountain-with-seven-limbs-or-maybe-only-five/#comment-47290 sewing Sun, 27 Aug 2006 03:24:20 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/25/a-mountain-with-seven-limbs-or-maybe-only-five/#comment-47290 It's in the balmy, non-humid mid 20s (low 80s) here in Vancouver.... It’s in the balmy, non-humid mid 20s (low 80s) here in Vancouver….

]]> By: Nomad http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/25/a-mountain-with-seven-limbs-or-maybe-only-five/#comment-47264 Nomad Sat, 26 Aug 2006 11:19:09 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/25/a-mountain-with-seven-limbs-or-maybe-only-five/#comment-47264 "with the heat and humidity lessened" Have you been outside in the last few days? Hopefully, after this afternoon's rains, it will start to cool down - at least at night. And nice pics, btw. “with the heat and humidity lessened”

Have you been outside in the last few days? Hopefully, after this afternoon’s rains, it will start to cool down - at least at night.
And nice pics, btw.

]]> By: Hwarang http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/25/a-mountain-with-seven-limbs-or-maybe-only-five/#comment-47263 Hwarang Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:59:54 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/25/a-mountain-with-seven-limbs-or-maybe-only-five/#comment-47263 Nice photos! What mapping software did you use to make the image at the top of the page? Nice photos! What mapping software did you use to make the image at the top of the page?

]]> By: sanshinseon http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/25/a-mountain-with-seven-limbs-or-maybe-only-five/#comment-47252 sanshinseon Sat, 26 Aug 2006 07:04:11 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/25/a-mountain-with-seven-limbs-or-maybe-only-five/#comment-47252 Thanks on the photos Sewing, and: > If I were actually in Korea, I wouldn’t even be > spending time on the Marmot’s Hole: I’d be out > there doing what you’re doing! Unfortunately these days, i'm spending a lot more time in my office writing *about* the mountains than i am being in them! Thanks on the photos Sewing, and:

> If I were actually in Korea, I wouldn’t even be
> spending time on the Marmot’s Hole: I’d be out
> there doing what you’re doing!

Unfortunately these days, i’m spending a lot more time in my
office writing *about* the mountains than i am being in them!

]]> By: sanshinseon http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/25/a-mountain-with-seven-limbs-or-maybe-only-five/#comment-47250 sanshinseon Sat, 26 Aug 2006 06:58:15 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/08/25/a-mountain-with-seven-limbs-or-maybe-only-five/#comment-47250 Thanks -- can't even remember where i stole it from, but i'm using it a lot now -- so great with white or yellow fonts. > 道林寺: That has to be my favourite name for a temple. Yeah, it has great mood, managing to evoke the Buddhist "forest monks" of India, Daoism, and even the "scholars forest" of early Joseon... There were at least two other Do-lim-sa's among the traditional temples: one still operating at Jeolla-namdo Gokseong-gun Dongak-san (supposedly founded by Wonyo in 660!) and one site of ruins in Gyeongju City's Guhwang-dong. Thanks — can’t even remember where i stole it from, but i’m using it a lot now — so great with white or yellow fonts.

> 道林寺: That has to be my favourite name for a temple.

Yeah, it has great mood, managing to evoke the Buddhist “forest monks” of India, Daoism, and even the “scholars forest” of early Joseon… There were at least two other Do-lim-sa’s among the traditional temples: one still operating at Jeolla-namdo Gokseong-gun Dongak-san (supposedly founded by Wonyo in 660!) and one site of ruins in Gyeongju City’s Guhwang-dong.

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