A grave

Hillocks litter the hillsides of the mountain adjacent to our apartment compound, and climb their way all the way up to the top

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Reflections by the Tancheon

March 26th 2006
Amazing that a culture so vibrant with energy, metropolitan cognition, and a sense of humour, has such a stifled sense of creativity by reputation. Dallas said that Koreans are utterly pragmatic (my word actually, not his) - no creativity whatsoever I think his words were. This may be slightly unfair to the people of such a mysterious place such as Seoul- a place of definitive contradiction - but ... read more

Asia » South Korea » Seoul

Korea was an independent kingdom under Chinese suzerainty for most of the past millennium. Following its victory in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Japan occupied Korea; five years later it formally annexed the entire peninsula. After World War II, a... ... read more

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