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As we headed out of the cemetery, we came across signs for this temple. It turned out to be a gem of a place. Off the beaten path, but well worth a few minutes to explore, especially as the decorations from the Buddha's Birthday holiday were still on display. Click...
This was the first time we'd taken the kids to the cemetary where Myunghee's father's ashes are kept. Click here to visit in Google Maps.
This photo doesn't really do justice to the scene, but it's one of my favorite spots on the Seoul Loop Highway. This is of the road north through a dense high-rise apartment jungle in Bucheon; the roadway is several stories off the ground at this point. Click here to visit...
I'm Not Fluent! The only proper first answer to this question is, "I'm not fluent." Fluency implies a level of comfort in the language that I don't ever expect to achieve. The word I've used for at least the last ten years or so is "proficient" and even that is...
Samsung won’t let this book get coverage through the traditional media in Korea (the one in white below – “삼성을 생각한다”; See brief reference near the end of this web post). But it’s still selling like hotcakes. Apparently, even in Korea, Samsung is merely “extremely powerful”, not “all powerful”. We had...
I cross this street on the way to the office in the morning.
Several days ago this multi-story campaign poster went up on a building near my office. It's for the former mayor of Ansan who is currently sitting in jail awaiting trial on charges of corruption. But with the Ansan mayoral election coming up next Wednesday, his backers got him onto the...
My niece, Yeon-Ah, got married on May 16. We attended at the 웨딩 FIESTA 귀족 [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://www.nobleweddinghall.co.kr/] (“Wedding Fiesta Noble” – gotta love that name!) in northern Seoul. The wedding hall’s tag line: “You of High Birth Are Already Nobility”.
At the Unification Observatory on Sunday, we picked up a bottle of wine and a bottle of beer from North Korea. With the news that North Korea is cutting all relations with the South, I guess it'll be awhile before we get more premium North Korean products.
