Seoul, South Korea: After Dark
I leave Seoul on Monday for a bit of time ‘down the country’. I’ll have my camera with me but unfortunately I don’t expect to put it to much use between now & the end of August, when I leave South Korea for Sri Lanka. So with that...
Gangnam Style || Seoul, South Korea
Having recently returned to South Korea from Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, I took the opportunity of being here, an Aladdin’s Cave for photographers, to add a few lenses to my arsenal. Having done so I took to the streets of Seoul, the South Korean capital,...
Gwanghwamun Gate, Seoul, South Korea
Gwanghwamun is the main and largest gate of Gyeongbokgung Palace, the largest & most important of the Five Grand Palaces of the Korean Joseon Dynasty (1392-1897). The gate, marking the southern entrance to the palace grounds, is located at the top of Sejongno,...
Jeju-do (Island), South Korea
“Visiting the tube is a cold (very cold), wet &, sporadic colourful lighting aside, dark experience. But the reward for walking/stumbling that aforementioned 1 kilometre in cold darkness? You get to feast your eyes on a 7.6 metre lava column, the largest known lava column in the world.”
Manjanggul Lava Tube, Jeju Island, South Korea
Jeju Island is a small volcanic island in the East China Sea off the south coast of the Korean Peninsula. In 2011, & at the end of a 4-year initiative, the island was selected as one of the New7Wonders of Nature, a list voted on by the public through a global...
The DMZ (Demilitarized Zone), Korea
”A poignant bridge to nowhere; rusting Korean War remnants; a polished but deserted train station; infiltrating The Third Infiltration Tunnel; & trying to espy the illusion of activity in a North Korean propaganda village.”
Seoul, South Korea (2008)
I’m back in Seoul, South Korea, on this my sixth visit to the country since my first back in late December 2004. It almost feels like home at this stage. There’s very little new here, except for my camera. Yesterday I bought my first ever...
Gyeongju, South Korea
Gyeongju is a coastal city in the southestern corner of the Korean peninsula. The city is famous throughout Korea as the capital of the ancient Korean Silla Dynasty, a dynasty that rose at the turn of the 1st millennium and ruled most of the Korean Peninsula from the...