Comments on: Anapji Pond, Gyeongju http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/08/anapji-pond-gyeongju/ Korea... in Blog Format Tue, 2 Dec 2008 23:25:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: sanshinseon http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/08/anapji-pond-gyeongju/#comment-77404 sanshinseon Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:39:36 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/08/anapji-pond-gyeongju/#comment-77404 I’ve stayed there, too -- on somebody else's dime, nice sure. don't think it'd be worth the price to stay there on my own budget, tho... I’ve stayed there, too — on somebody else’s dime, nice sure. don’t think it’d be worth the price to stay there on my own budget, tho…

]]> By: sewing http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/08/anapji-pond-gyeongju/#comment-77282 sewing Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:27:38 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/08/anapji-pond-gyeongju/#comment-77282 Hey, I've stayed there, too! Hey, I’ve stayed there, too!

]]> By: R. Elgin http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/08/anapji-pond-gyeongju/#comment-77220 R. Elgin Wed, 11 Apr 2007 05:29:30 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/08/anapji-pond-gyeongju/#comment-77220 You 'da man Robert. I kept pointing to that hotel but my crew got cheap on me. You ‘da man Robert. I kept pointing to that hotel but my crew got cheap on me.

]]> By: sanshinseon http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/08/anapji-pond-gyeongju/#comment-77213 sanshinseon Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:49:04 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/08/anapji-pond-gyeongju/#comment-77213 > Yes, it was Gwaeneung, but the main tomb was round right, the top mound is, but the stone base is square, which is unique -- probably because it's not the tomb of a king, but of a very high-ranking aristocrat who was buried with near-kingly honors -- Adams thinks it was Prime Minister Kim Dae-seong, builder of Bulguk-sa and Seokkur-am! It has /ship-iji/ Zodiac figures carved on panels on its base, but they're in poor condition, the ones on Gen Kim Yu-shin's tomb are much better. > discovered Oksan Seowon and nearby Yangdong > ... They were both very nice ...Oksan Seowon was superb. Yeah, they're great -- i put them in the LP guide because Gyeongju can be overly-Buddhist, you can get burnt-out on so many only-Buddhist Shilla artworks, so those sites make for a really nice Neo-Confucian / Joseon "break"... > Yes, it was Gwaeneung, but the main tomb was round

right, the top mound is, but the stone base is square, which is unique — probably because it’s not the tomb of a king, but of a very high-ranking aristocrat who was buried with near-kingly honors — Adams thinks it was Prime Minister Kim Dae-seong, builder of Bulguk-sa and Seokkur-am! It has /ship-iji/ Zodiac figures carved on panels on its base, but they’re in poor condition, the ones on Gen Kim Yu-shin’s tomb are much better.

> discovered Oksan Seowon and nearby Yangdong
> … They were both very nice …Oksan Seowon was superb.

Yeah, they’re great — i put them in the LP guide because Gyeongju can be overly-Buddhist, you can get burnt-out on so many only-Buddhist Shilla artworks, so those sites make for a really nice Neo-Confucian / Joseon “break”…

]]> By: Robert Koehler http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/08/anapji-pond-gyeongju/#comment-77212 Robert Koehler Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:42:51 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/08/anapji-pond-gyeongju/#comment-77212 R. Elgin---I stayed at the Hyundai Hotel on Bomun Lake. Which was nice. Very nice. R. Elgin—I stayed at the Hyundai Hotel on Bomun Lake. Which was nice. Very nice.

]]> By: sewing http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/08/anapji-pond-gyeongju/#comment-77190 sewing Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:06:36 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/08/anapji-pond-gyeongju/#comment-77190 ..."Very nice" is an understatement. Oksan Seowon was superb. (And no, I don't make it a habit of relying on 10-year-old travel guides to get me around! Not after my second trip to Korea in 1999 took me on a fruitless 90-minute subway trip to Suwon in a vain search for the narrow gauge Suin-seon railway line that had been disbanded a couple of years previously. ;) ) …”Very nice” is an understatement. Oksan Seowon was superb. (And no, I don’t make it a habit of relying on 10-year-old travel guides to get me around! Not after my second trip to Korea in 1999 took me on a fruitless 90-minute subway trip to Suwon in a vain search for the narrow gauge Suin-seon railway line that had been disbanded a couple of years previously. ;) )

]]> By: sewing http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/08/anapji-pond-gyeongju/#comment-77188 sewing Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:03:55 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/08/anapji-pond-gyeongju/#comment-77188 Hey, I remember seeing your name in the book! (Where it is written as "Shinseon San"—just joking.) Yes, it was Gwaeneung, but the main tomb was round, as I recall... I should thank you...on one trip a couple of years ago when I couldn't think of anything new to see in Gyeongju (heh—or so I thought!), we discovered Oksan Seowon and nearby Yangdong in the LP guide, which I was then able to recommend to Sperwer about a year ago when he was looking for places to see. They were both very nice. Hey, I remember seeing your name in the book! (Where it is written as “Shinseon San”—just joking.) Yes, it was Gwaeneung, but the main tomb was round, as I recall…

I should thank you…on one trip a couple of years ago when I couldn’t think of anything new to see in Gyeongju (heh—or so I thought!), we discovered Oksan Seowon and nearby Yangdong in the LP guide, which I was then able to recommend to Sperwer about a year ago when he was looking for places to see. They were both very nice.

]]> By: sanshinseon http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/08/anapji-pond-gyeongju/#comment-77182 sanshinseon Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:11:23 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/08/anapji-pond-gyeongju/#comment-77182 Re: #14 again: > This place is the temple site where Wonwonsa temple was built > by General Kim Yu-shin and others to protect the country. The temple > is believed to have been built between the 8th century and the 9th. Gawd, that's actually dumber than most such listings -- General Kim Yu-shin is firmly 7th-Century, so that makes no sense. Surely they mean it was founded by Kim and then rennovated / expanded 200 years later in the 9th Cen (common occurance), which is when those pagodas were built; Adams calls them 9th-Cen which makes sense to me -- proto-Goryeo, not "during Goryeo". My personal theory: reconstruction was done and pagodas were built by Doseon-guksa his own self! Re: #14 again:
> This place is the temple site where Wonwonsa temple was built
> by General Kim Yu-shin and others to protect the country. The temple
> is believed to have been built between the 8th century and the 9th.

Gawd, that’s actually dumber than most such listings — General Kim Yu-shin is firmly 7th-Century, so that makes no sense. Surely they mean it was founded by Kim and then rennovated / expanded 200 years later in the 9th Cen (common occurance), which is when those pagodas were built; Adams calls them 9th-Cen which makes sense to me — proto-Goryeo, not “during Goryeo”. My personal theory: reconstruction was done and pagodas were built by Doseon-guksa his own self!

]]> By: sanshinseon http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/08/anapji-pond-gyeongju/#comment-77089 sanshinseon Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:04:02 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/08/anapji-pond-gyeongju/#comment-77089 You may be thinking of the Gwae-neung [square tomb] that has a great guardian-statue collection, one of the best, southWEST of Bulguk-sa -- just to the south of the intersection of the road to Bulguk-sa Area with the National Highway. > the Lonely Planet guide to South Korea > (at least the edition from a decade ago). If you mean the 1997 ed, that's the one i was co-author of :-) You may be thinking of the Gwae-neung [square tomb] that has a great guardian-statue collection, one of the best, southWEST of Bulguk-sa — just to the south of the intersection of the road to Bulguk-sa Area with the National Highway.

> the Lonely Planet guide to South Korea
> (at least the edition from a decade ago).

If you mean the 1997 ed, that’s the one i was co-author of :-)

]]> By: sewing http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/08/anapji-pond-gyeongju/#comment-77058 sewing Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:41:02 +0000 http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/04/08/anapji-pond-gyeongju/#comment-77058 There's a tomb southeast of Bulguksa that has various exotic statues lions, monkeys, and/or the like, as I recall. Can't think of the name offhand, but it's in the <i>Lonely Planet</i> guide to South Korea (at least the edition from a decade ago). There’s a tomb southeast of Bulguksa that has various exotic statues lions, monkeys, and/or the like, as I recall. Can’t think of the name offhand, but it’s in the Lonely Planet guide to South Korea (at least the edition from a decade ago).

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