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,...
Saturday, 3 November 2018 My friend Wayne says that the best way to know a city is to walk it. That works for me, but this morning I thought perhaps I might have to take a bus at one point and I should put Google maps on my new iPad. It seemed a good idea and simple...
Friday. 2 November 2018 Rooming in Jongno-gu of Seoul, the area where the Korean Royal Palaces are located, allows me to walk to many of these historic sites. Here and there remains a patch of road constructed of very old and difficult-to-walk-on stones, as well as...
Thursday, 1 November 2018 Perhaps the shame of Teddy’s Roosevelt’s handover of Korea to Japan in 1905, for which ironically he received the Nobel Peace Prize, can be somewhat expiated by the great contribution of the American Christian missionaries, who were active in...
Wednesday 31 October 2018 Wandering in Seoul It is a great day to wander around Seoul, cool but not cold, an autumn day with bright blue skies. This area is of Gyeongbokgung is the heart of commercial Seoul, government and corporate centers located here in their...
