Sunset on Mt. Namsan

by Robert Koehler on May 31, 2009

Just some shots I took on a stroll up Mt. Namsan this afternoon/evening (see Flickr slideshow here):

Tagged as: Mt. Namsan

{ 14 comments… read them below or add one }

1 GI Korea June 1, 2009 at 12:11 am: Great pictures, I especially like the 4th and 6th pictures you took. It looks like it was a pretty nice day in Seoul.
2 KrZ June 1, 2009 at 12:21 am: I want the 6th picture as a desktop. Damn flickr and their low max. resolution.
3 Ladron June 1, 2009 at 12:41 am: I want to ask again if you’ve ever tried playing with tilt-shift photography. I hear the lenses are pretty expensive, but you can do the same thing through photoshop.
4 Robert Koehler June 1, 2009 at 12:55 am: Nope — I’ve heard you can do the same thing with Photoshop, too, but I’m rather lazy with the editing.
5 mjw June 1, 2009 at 5:42 am: apparently i should have stuck around at the top a bit longer, robert….damn
6 mashimaro June 1, 2009 at 8:03 am: Apparently the locks were made popular for couples because of a drama a few years ago.
7 Djamesand June 1, 2009 at 9:47 am: I lived in the Greater Seoul area from 97-05 (and wrote about Korean issues for the CBC while still there), leaving only to give this law school thing a run, and photos like these tell me one thing: I need to go back. Well bloody done.
8 john_galt718 June 1, 2009 at 11:05 am: Those pictures are cool – we were going to go up there on my last trip to Seoul but never made it. I dig all those locks – I’m not clear on the purpose; what was “the drama of a few years ago”?
9 Brian D June 1, 2009 at 11:30 am: Excellent pictures.
10 McGenghis June 1, 2009 at 1:20 pm: You said point and shoot, but man, you do it well.
11 Robert Koehler June 1, 2009 at 1:32 pm: Thanks, guys.
12 Ladron June 1, 2009 at 2:27 pm: I dig all those locks – I’m not clear on the purpose;

I forget the name of the drama, but the locks are to show that the couple’s love is “locked” together.
13 JiMong June 1, 2009 at 3:17 pm: Robert,

I wonder how come you always capture the blue sky in Seoul these days.
All I did see was very humid-smoged grey sky (even few days ago, May 20 – May 24).
14 danson June 1, 2009 at 11:24 pm: Nice shots… I’ve been up Namsan many times, but I’ve never once seen the city so clearly. It seemed it’s always covered in an impenetrable layer of smog.