I took this picture from behind my apartment building last weekend. Look closely and you can see several different communication towers dotting their way up the different peaks.
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in deep kimchi
Gwangju World Cup stadium this year was the venue for the Kimchi Cultural Festival; a seven day celebration (without mud or mind altering drugs) of all things inspired by vegetables rotting in a ceramic jug. For anyone that does not live in Korea or shop the isles of obscurity at your local grocer, kimchi most […]
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black and white photos of Korea
Wow, that was quick. Only eleven more to go. Counting the days already, you say? Who wouldn’t after having gone through a terrible September of transitions and training. But at least now the really difficult part is over. Who wouldn’t after having gone through a terrible September of transitions and training. This is for for […]
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Alcohol: Breaking Down All Barriers
Coming up from the subway on our way to Yangdong Market, we found our selves in the middle of a sidewalk shopping center; everything from sun visors to rack of cow. Being that it’s still a bit shocking to see a hanging meat carcass next to a man selling q-tips, I stopped to take a […]
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Yangdong Market in Gwangju
When it smells like low tide, you have arrived. Yangdong is a traditional Korean marketplace, located in a large warehouse that is built atop the Gwangjucheon Stream. There you will find mostly butchers, fish mongers, seaweed dealers, tailors and farmers selling their latest crop. From the Grand Hotel downtown, walk North West along the stream […]
Twenty-eight hours and nearly 7500 miles later, we arrived safely in Gwangju, Korea on August 21st, 2009.