Friday 9 November 2018

Friday, 9 November 2018 Koreans love parades and dressing up in the dress of the nineteenth-century Joseon Dynasty Court or maybe they  – that is the Korean Tourist Bureau – has discovered that visiting tourists love to see parades and Koreans dressed up...

Thursday 8 November 2018

Thursday, 8 November 2018 The plan was to visit the Tomb of Queen Min.  The Gambles had been there and the photograph taken by Clarence and Sidney is a good one. Donggureung, East Nine Royal Tombs, is a cluster of tombs of the rulers of the Joseon Dynasty on a site...

Wednesday 7 November 2018

Wednesday, 7 November 2018 The much anticipated day arrived to view the Women’s History Archives at the great Ewha University, the largest educational institution for women in the world. The campus ranges over many hills (you might call them mountains). and those...

Tuesday 6 November 2018

Tuesday, 6 November 2018 A day on the subways. This was not the plan for the day, but that is what the day brought. I forgot the exiit or I got on the right train but it was the wrong direction or I misunderstood the Hangul or I misunderstood the directions given me...

Monday 5 November 2018

Monday, 5 November 2018 As much as I would like to walk the city of Seoul to know it, it’s fairly clear that to walk the entire city would require walking the rest of my life. And so I took a City of Seoul Tour Bus. We rode and rode and rode. The autumn is a beautiful...