Robert Koehler Travel & Photography
Images of Korea
Gyeongbokgung Palace will be open for nighttime viewing through Sunday (admission: 3,000 won). If you have a camera—or even if you don’t—don’t miss this rare oportunity to enjoy Seoul’s landmark royal palace after the sun’s gone down. Working just next door, I took the opportunity to get out there, both to snap a few shots [...]
If you do find yourself in Bukchon Hanok Village one evening and have 5,000 won to spare, do check out the exhibit “House Lives with Time” at the Gahoe-dong Han-ssi House. Korean hanbok designer Kim Yeong-seok and Japanese contemporary artist Tatsuo Miyajima collaborate in this unusual piece of installation art uses digital counters in the [...]
Here we are again at Changgyeonggung Palace. These were taken in the rain Sunday evening from the open garden atop the SNU Medical Center Cancer Center, and despite the weather (or perhaps because of it), they came out much better, IMHO, than my last effort from that spot (see the final two photos). Facing as [...]
The Cultural Heritage Administration opens up Changgyeonggung and Gyeongbokgung palaces for special night viewing for a few nights in April and October. If you enjoy nighttime photography, it’s an opportunity not to be missed. Changgyeonggung will be open at night on April 20—22 and April 24—26. Yes, I came here last spring, too. No rule [...]
With camera in hand, I went to Suwon on Sunday evening to photograph some blue hour shots of the Janganmun Gate. Which, for those keeping score at home, is Korea’s largest city gate. Sadly, I shot a lot of my shots using a circular polarizer, just to experiment. The results looked like crap. Which means [...]
We had some snow and cold weather recently in Seoul. Sadly, I didn’t get much time to photograph the snowy scenery, but I did run over to Deoksugung one lunch hour to shoot the winter-white palace. I was hoping the snow would last until Saturday, but alas, by Saturday morning, much of the snow had [...]
If you live in Seoul, you’ve no doubt noticed it’s snowing outside. Getting home won’t be fun this evening. Take care on the roads tonight, everyone.
They don’t call it the “Great White Mountain” for nothing. One of my goals for this year was to take in the first sunrise of the New Year from atop Mt. Taebaeksan (1,567m), one of Korea’s most sacred peaks. When the weather is right, the summit offers breathtaking views of rising sun, silhouetting the peak’s [...]
One of the many nice things about living in Seoul is you’re never more than an hour’s commuter train ride away from somewhere much more relaxing. Last weekend, I finally had a sort-of-free Sunday, so I broke out the camera and hopped on the 5:30 train from Cheongnyangni to Yangsu-ri to catch the sunrise from [...]
This is me trying to be artistic, trying being the operative word. I was guiding a tour of Bukchon on Saturday when I came across this lovely red tree in front of the old Jongchinbu at Jeongdok Public Library. So lovely it was, in fact, that I went back Sunday afternoon to photograph it and, [...]
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