Photos Page 9

Added February 1st, 2004

This was supposed to be a forced artistic composition more than a lame self-portrait, expressing the solitude of living in the middle of nowhere...in reality it's not that bad..

I think I have more than one Gyeongbukgung picture on this site, but I think it's more majestic in the winter.

The traditional Korean Hanbok, worn on special occasions, like this one, the lunar new year. Here the children are learning the correct posture for bowing to their parents.

This is a sweet picture, normally the kids are stolidly stone-faced when they get their pictures taken...

...like in this shot for example, although here these girls are looking quite beautiful.

A Buddhist temple nestled away in the crags of a mountain, here the white snow and white marble encapsulate pristine beauty.

South Korea's topography is 70 percent mountainous terrain which makes for some marvelous hiking opportunities. This mountain, Gamaksan, is relatively close to where I live in Paju.

Although the dragon is culturally more Chinese than Korean, it can be found associated with Buddhist symbology like here at the Gamaksan temple..

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