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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Category Archives: Photos of Korea
Lanterns and A Mountain Path
May 10, 2008 – 4:22 pm
Beautiful Photos of North Korea
May 2, 2008 – 5:44 pm
French photographer Eric Lafforgue has posted a wonderful photoset taken in North Korea on Flickr.
Check it out!
Historic Architecture of Daegu
April 23, 2008 – 2:04 am
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 [...]
Well, Here’s Something You Don’t See Every Day
April 21, 2008 – 8:58 am
Taken yesterday at Dong Daegu Station.
Keijo University, Online in 3-D
April 14, 2008 – 1:24 pm
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.
Haeinsa Temple
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.
Think Happy Thoughts, Happy Thoughts…
April 11, 2008 – 4:07 pm
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:
Samcheong-dong
April 8, 2008 – 12:29 pm
Just some photos I snapped in Samcheong-dong yesterday. See below for the rest, or just watch the Flickr slideshow.
Spring Fever Thread - Sijo and Photo Links Welcome!
March 17, 2008 – 4:44 am
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 [...]
Hanok Anglican Churches of Ganghwa Island (and Jeondeungsa, too!)
March 3, 2008 – 4:45 pm
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 [...]
Pictures from The New Year in Kangjin
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 [...]
Beautiful Photos of Sungnyemun
February 12, 2008 – 1:48 pm
Screw my photos — now these are some wonderful shots of our now-fallen gate.
Funny, That Doesn’t Look Like a Church…
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).
Memorial to Sungnyemun Gate
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 [...]
Chuncheon: Following the Irish Legacy in Korea
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 [...]
A Snowy Day in Bukchon
January 11, 2008 – 5:27 pm
We got our first real snow of the year in Seoul today.
To mark the occasion, I shot some photos in Bukchon Hanok Village during my lunch hour. Enjoy.
Then there’s always the full-size slideshow.
A Chinese-Irish Church in Gwangju
January 9, 2008 – 8:27 pm
Bukdong Catholic Church in Gwangju, designed by Chinese Catholic and church builder Joseph Ka at the request of Bishop Thomas Quinlan of the Missionary Society of St. Columban. The church was completed in 1937.
Beautiful Photographs of Korea, Mongolia and Elsewhere
January 5, 2008 – 2:11 pm
Don Lee’s got some talent — be sure to check out his photos here. Beautiful stuff.
[MUST SEE] North Korean Architecture Photos
January 2, 2008 – 2:05 pm
The photographer otherwise known as Kerbeisser has posted a ton of photos, mostly of architecture in North Korea and China (some in South Korea and elsewhere, too). Click on over — absolutely brilliant stuff. Fans of socialist realism in particular will love it.