As you may or may not have heard, I got recognized last week at the Korea Regional Photography Contest. A few of you asked to see the photos, so here goes: I won 1st Place in the Animals Division

A few days back I posted about my walk around Dongnimmun Station. But today I wanted to bring you more information on the Seodaemun Prison Museum which is also located right next to this subway stop.

Many of the lanterns this year were scenes from Korean folk tales. So I thought it might be fun to share the lanterns and the tales with you. Today’s story is about the creation of the sun and moon. Long, long ago lived a brother and a sister and there mother. One day, the mother was coming home to her children with a basket of rice cakes. A large tiger jumped out at her and said “Give ...

When we first got to Korea, I was so much better about just going out to anywhere and wandering around until I found something interesting. This might have been partly because I didn’t know where to go… but I digress. This week I decided I really miss that part of exploring. Life (and work) has gotten in the way, as well as having so many places I know I want to see. But since our pl ...

Guess what time of year it is??? I’ll put more up later, after I have a chance to go through them. But I wanted to put at least one up while the festival is still going on so that anyone in Seoul who hasn’t yet gone will GO before its too late. I really love the lantern festival. I’d suggest going during the week so its not quite as busy. It runs along the Cheonggye Stream, and ...

The Korean Black Eagles (their acrobatic air stunt team) also put on a show while we were there. We watched this part from a field on the US base, where we also had some entertainment due to a fall festival. It was fun to see the traditional performers and the jets together!

A few weekends ago, we traveled to the Seoul Aerospace and Defense Trade Show to look at all the cool airplanes that I haven’t been able to hang around since my college days. I think it is a bi-annual event, so the next one will be in 2013. The exhibit was on a ROK airbase which is connected  to a US airbase, so we got free travel and entry. Can’t beat that.

So I left you hanging for the final picture of our hike. We did make it to the waterfalls:

We went back to Seoraksan National Park this fall for a day hike. We missed the leaves by about a week last year, and we were probably a week early this year, but there was still a lot of beautiful hints of what was to come.

One of the main reasons I wanted to go to the bakery fair was to do the latte art experience. It taught me a good lesson — check the event schedule before you go! We missed the hands on demonstration and latte art extravaganza.  But there was one little booth that was doing small scale art throughout the day. Latte art seems to be a pretty big deal here, especia ...