September 4, 2007 – 7:57 pm
Upcoming Royal Asiatic Society - Korea activities of potential interest to honorable M-Holers:
Sat Sept 8th: NAEJANG-SAN and Naejang-sa Temple Tour — A great opportunity to visit the beautiful Naejang-san National Park. We will see the famous and ancient Naejang-sa Buddhist Temple, and have some time to walk around enjoying the superb scenery.
Sun Sept 9th: DONG-GANG RIVER [...]
September 1, 2007 – 12:43 pm
Update: Heavy rains have retreated, so we’re going today after all — sudden reversal of the postponment! So the Baekdu-daegan Expedition Opening Ceremony / Media-Event is at 10am today (Sunday) – we’ll see who shows up. 4 hours of driving, here we go… Original: Damn — the Yong-wang has let me down despite my missionary proselytizing [...]
August 29, 2007 – 12:07 am
Our great hike is happening for real, both the Kiwi mountain-men are in-country and all is arranged that can be. We’re holding an Expedition Launching Ceremony and Media-Event at about 9 or 10 on the morning of Sunday, September 2nd 2007 at Jiri-san’s area known to Koreans as Beobgyesa-ipgu. This is the trailhead/parking-lot area of [...]
August 27, 2007 – 9:54 pm
Tuesday August 28th, 7:30 pm: Lecture by Dr. Yang Sung-chul (distinguished prof at Korea University & etc, ROK’s Ambassador to the United States 2000~2003, Member of the National Assembly from 1996 to 2000 and the author of several noted books on N-S Korean political systems & relations). His topic: “The Future of Korea and [...]
August 19, 2007 – 6:41 pm
Well, the weather was not so bad today if you could avoid the direct heat of the sun, and a busload of folks did so in exceptionally pleasant fashion on the Royal Asiatic Society Korea’s tour tour of the remote and famously-scenic alpine Danyang area, including a taste of the Worak-san National Park, Gosu Cave and a boat-cruise on [...]
August 15, 2007 – 4:35 pm
A few of us expat-types are doing something pretty interesting this fall, and I’ve been intending to post about it, and now I’m stimulated into action by an article by Roger Shepherd, one of my partners in this noble project, appearing on the Seoul Times web-newspaper. See the ST front page and click on “Baekdu-daegan [...]
Last week the wife and I spent four excellent days of traveling around remote Yeongdeok County (center of the east coast of North Gyeongsang Province, north of Pohang City). My first time to ever explore this area, and I shouldn’t have waited so long. It features fine beaches (Daejin is the biggest) and [...]
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The big annual expo of all kinds of Tea (but featuring Korea’s excellent green tea of course) is being held at the Indian Hall (1st Floor) of the COEX complex (Samseong Metro Station, Gangnam-gu of Seoul) starting tomorrow (June 27th) and running thru Sunday (July 1st). The “Tea World Festival” promotes Korea’s tea culture(s) both ancient and modern (some striking innovations displayed [...]
The Royal Asiatic Society Korea will hold its second semi-monthly Lecture-Meeting of June (and final one of the season) this coming Tuesday the 26th, at 7:30 pm, in the 2nd-floor Resident’s Lounge of the Somerset Palace Residence (downtown, near Anguk Station, west of Exit #6; north of Jogye-sa Temple. All in English, open to the [...]
There’s a cool festival happening in NE Seoul this weekend, with the above title, held by Gangbuk-gu District. All kinds of cultural aspects of Korea’s mountains, with an atmosphere of public celebration. Music, dance and other performances (old Korean, modern Korean and western) 7-9pm Saturday evening. Then an international “mountathon” and group-climbing event up over Samgak-san’s Yeong-bong and [...]
The Royal Asiatic Society Korea will hold its first semi-monthly Lecture-Meeting of June this coming Tuesday the 12th, at 7:30 pm, in the 2nd-floor Resident’s Lounge of the Somerset Palace Residence (downtown, near Anguk Station, west of Exit #6; north of Jogye-sa). All in English, open to the public (small donation requested from non-members, w5000 recommended); [...]
By the way, my buddy Shawn Morrissey held his modern-korean-style wedding two weeks ago today, outdoors at the Namsan Freedom Center, and some of his many friends are known to be readers of this blog, so you may want to see the page i put up of photos of that event with script of my [...]
The Royal Asiatic Society will hold its first semi-monthly Lecture-Meeting of May this coming Tuesday the 8th, at 7:30 pm, in the 2nd-floor Resident’s Lounge of the Somerset Palace Residence (downtown, near Anguk Station, west of Exit #6; north of Jogye-sa Temple. All in English, open to the public (small donation requested from non-members, w5,000 [...]
By the way, I’m sure that you will have noticed exactly two weeks ago (Thursday April 19th) that it was a rare conjunction of three ‘holidays’ in one: it was “4.19″ the anniversary of the fatal demonstrations that overthrew President Rhee in 1960 (there was a classical music performance at the Memorial Cemetery for that; [...]
I will be guiding a 3-hour RAS Walking-Tour of the Bukchon [North Village] neighborhood of hanok [traditional Korean houses] — including a stop at the excellent Gahoe Folklore Museum and other interesting spots — this Saturday, and there’s still space for a few more people to come along. Weather is expected to be [...]
The Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society will hold its second semi-monthly Lecture-Meeting of April this Monday the 23rd (note that it’s not Tuesday as usual!), at 7:30 pm, in the 2nd-floor Resident’s Lounge of the Somerset Palace Residence (downtown, near Anguk Station, west of Exit #6; north of Jogye-sa Temple). All in English, [...]
Royal Asiatic Society - Korea will hold its first semi-monthly Lecture-Meeting of April on Tuesday the 10th, at 7:30 pm, in the 2nd-floor Resident’s Lounge of the Somerset Palace Residence (downtown, near Anguk Station, west of Exit #6; north of Jogye-sa Temple). All in English and open to the public, as always; more info: 763-9483 and [...]
Korea is Not #1. Damn, it’s not even #2! — in spam-sending. It might not even be #3, the article (Yahoo News) doesn’t say who is. But in the reported situation that almost 70% of all e-mail originating in Asia is spam, at least Philippines and China are ahead of South Korea. Come on, where is the [...]
The Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society will hold its second semi-monthly Lecture-Meeting of March this Tuesday the 27th, at 7:30 pm, in the 2nd-floor Resident’s Lounge of the Somerset Palace Residence (downtown, near Anguk Station, west of Exit #6; north of Jogye-sa Temple). All in English, for free and open to the public, as [...]
The RAS tour that i’m going to lead to Tap-sa [Pagoda Temple] in Ma-i-san [Horse-Ears Mountains] and the Muju Gucheon-dong Valley (in Deokyusan National Park) has been postponed due to the expected bad weather this Saturday, and in order to include this year’s cherry blossoms. It will now be offered on Sunday, April 8th. [...]
