My friend at the Korea Tourism Organization invited me to apply for a temple stay trip to Seoraksan’s Baekdamsa (백담사百潭寺). Our group — diplomats from Nepal, scientists from Spain and Mexico, photographers and teachers from Canada, and the assortment of officials and journalists that coordinate these trips — met up on a chilly Saturday morning [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Cheonggyecheon’
14 June 2008
韓牛
It’s a Thursday night and the light is dusty, dusky here in Sinchon as my second week at Sogang wraps up. Across the way, nervous looking students are gulping down banchan (반찬) faster than usual as they ready themselves for the last of their exams, and the air is filled with light from the noraebangs [...]
5 August 2007
School Break
The Week of July 23
Was my school break. I met Hye Jin on Monday at Lotte World, a magical place in Jamsil in southeastern Seoul. Boxed in by Lotte Group’s magnificent department store, buttressed by Lotte’s sizzling Lotterias, guarded by Lotte’s Castle Apartments, funded largely by purchases on Lotte credit cards (it cost half the [...]
19 June 2007
Since Arriving/ From Now, More Often
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
The sun was beating down this afternoon on SD Vamos, the Sogang Dae Korean Language Education Center (KLEC) soccer club, and the wheaty dust of the undongjang had already given our team, the dark shirts, spots and stripes on its way up from our kicks. After chasing a player chasing a ball [...]
