Seoul, Korea Tuesday 12 November 2019 Today, we visited the $40-chocolate expert, a professor at Yonsei University, and he was well worth the $40 and then some. Learned all sorts of things and was informed of all of my typing errors (very painful—it is a draft!) but...
Seoul, Korea Monday 11 November 2019 Autumn yet clings to the trees of Seoul and, surprisingly, petunias are blooming in the street baskets. Immersed as I am researching nineteenth-century Korea, my head is filled with images of the Seoul and Korea of that period....
Seattle Airport – Saturday 9 November 2019 Matt Olivia, a practicing ophthalmologist in Medford, Oregon, is currently in Ethiopia, where he is part of the Himalayan Cataract Project offering cataract surgeries to the many peoples there so afflicted. His generous...
Thursday 7 November 2019 To All Who Would Like to Know About Korea in 1908: It is possible (though I cannot imagine such a thing) that you might not care about the state of Korea in 1908. Please do not hesitate to unsubscribe. But, in fact, the story of early Korea...
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 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 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 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 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...
Sunday, 4 November 2018 A trip to the Folk Museum, which is situated by the vast Gyeongbokgung with its spacious courtyards and many ancillary buildings. The Folk Museum building is beautiful and spacious and within are displayed the common tools, farming implements,...
