Well, that pavilion above the entrance does look a bit odd for a hanok, no?
The Wealthy Hyeon Family House in Beolgyo, Jeollanam-do featured prominently in Jo Jung-rae’s The Taebaek Mountains. The house, with its clear Japanese influences (such as the pavilion above the entrance) is a perfect representation of colonial Korea’s collaborating landed elite. In [...]
A Korean blogger has set up a beautiful site introducing Korea’s early modern architecture through period post cards.
It’s an absolute MUST SEE. Seriously. Who needs online porn when you have stuff like this?
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100 images added to Flickr courtesy of commenter Gillian. Thanks for the link!
Here are a couple of shots I took today at Dongnak Seowon (Confucian Academy) in Gumi, Gyeongsangbuk-do.
Dongnak Seowon was founded in 1655 by the students of renowned Confucian scholar Jang Hyeon-gwang. Like most of Korea’s other seowon, however, the academy was closed and pulled down in 1871 on orders from Heungseon Daewongun. The academy’s shrine [...]
Happy Buddha’s Birthday to all. Here is a link to a few pictures taken on the way to the little temple on top of Kwanak-san in Seoul.
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French photographer Eric Lafforgue has posted a wonderful photoset taken in North Korea on Flickr.
Check it out!
Battle of the Spires: Gyesan-dong Cathedral vs. Daegu First Presbyterian Church
Daegu.
Park Geun-hye Country.
Shitty weather, worse food, girls who speak with cute accents and local politics only slightly to the right of Mussolini’s.
While there is certainly plenty of sites of cultural and historical importance around Daegu, most consider Daegu to be — at most — a [...]
Taken yesterday at Dong Daegu Station.
The National Archive has created an online 3-D model of Keijo Imperial University (now Seoul National University) as it was during the Japanese imperial period.
The archive has also posted the floor plans of colonial-era schools, and plans to create eventually an online archive of colonial-era architecture.
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April 14, 2008 – 11:33 am
Here are a couple of shots taken yesterday at Haeinsa Temple in Hapcheon, Gyeongsangnam-do.
Don’t forget to see them in full size via the Flickr slideshow.
See the rest in the May issue of SEOUL magazine.
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Taking a break from bitching about how the Korea-US alliance sucks donkey cock, I give you some photos of the cherry blossoms at Jeongdok Library:
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Just some photos I snapped in Samcheong-dong yesterday. See below for the rest, or just watch the Flickr slideshow.
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The symphony of spring color has begun on the peninsula with magnolias opening in Busan. Post your spring-themed sijo and photo links here on this thread.
I noticed today that Bradford pears, a favorite ornamental tree in my town, are budding along with other flowering trees and bushes. I expect to be posting photos of dogwoods, redbuds, and all their [...]
photo coutesy of Misha McMurtray
Ganghwa Onsuri Anglican Church.
Jeondeungsa Temple.
Ganghwa Anglican Church.
On Sunday, this humble blogger — having recently picked himself up a Nikon 55-200mm VR lens — found himself on Ganghwa Island. As it would turn out, I had very little cause to actually use the lens, but I did get to stop by two very beautiful old churches [...]
February 13, 2008 – 1:42 pm
This Lunar New Year took me back to Kangjin City, in Kangjin County, which is the home of the poet Kim Yun-sik “Young Rang” and the place of exile for Jeong Yak-Yong, aka “Dasan” (Tea Mountain), who was one of the most prolific writers and scholars of the Chosun Dynasty. The above picture is of [...]
February 12, 2008 – 1:48 pm
Screw my photos — now these are some wonderful shots of our now-fallen gate.
February 11, 2008 – 6:09 pm
This church in Mokpo look a tad funny? There’s a reason — built in the early 1930s, it was originally a Japanese Buddhist temple. In fact, it’s one of not-even-a-handful of examples of colonial Japanese Buddhist architecture left in Korea (another in Gunsan’s Dongguk-sa, which still functions as a Buddhist temple).
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February 11, 2008 – 12:32 pm
These are the photos I’ve shot of Sungnyemun (Namdaemun) Gate. The day shots, BTW, were taken only last week.
The Sungnyemun Gate, to me, represented what was most beautiful in Seoul — perhaps better than anywhere else, you could feel here the dynamic contrast between old and new that makes Seoul such an interesting place to [...]
January 13, 2008 – 9:12 pm
Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus, Jungnim-dong Cathedral
We’ve visited quite a few old Catholic churches on this blog. Most were built by French missionaries in the closing years of the Joseon era and the Japanese colonial era.
The Paris Foreign Missions Society weren’t the only Catholics doing missionary work in Korea, however. They were joined by the [...]
