I’ve been a busy little boy—what follows is a miscellany of mini-adventures I’ve had over the last week or so. Jogyesa Temple from above Last week, I saw some photos of Jogyesa Temple taken by W.S. Chang and determined that, by Jove, I must have that shot, too. Sadly, however, when a friend and I [...]
Intro Ginkgo trees, stone walls and red brick. Encompassing Deoksugung Palace and its surrounding neighborhood, the historic Jeong-dong area is Seoul’s old legation quarter. At the turn of the 20th century, it was virtually a city within a city, not unlike Beijing’s famous Legation Quarter, home to Western legations, Christian churches and missionary compounds that [...]