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A farmhouse in rural Idong Township
(Pochon County, Kyongi Province), surrounded by rice fields. We stayed here with some friends
during the heaviest overnight rainfall in the region in thirty years. This
shot was taken as the clouds cleared the next morning. July 2001.
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A giant bear guards the mountain pass
between Kyongi and Kangwon Provinces, in the northern part of South
Korea. February 2001.
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The Kangnam district in Seoul. May 2001.
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The school bus picking up our son, as
seen from his Korean grandmother's apartment window, in the Kangdong district
of Seoul. To the right is one of the north gates of Olympic Park. September
2000.
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Small restaurants were everywhere in
these streets around our apartment. On the far right is one of our
"regular" places, specializing in sujebi (a kind of Korean gnocchi). June
2001.
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A street in Seoul famous for its ttokbokki,
rice pasta served in red paper paste. The sign in the background, although
written phonetically in Korean, combines Chinese, Korean and English: "Shindangdong
(C) Ttokbokki (K) Town (E)." November 2000.
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Anti-globalization protesters in the
streets of the Songp'a district of Seoul during the October 2000 ASEM meeting.
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Memorial service for the poet Ch'on
Sangpyong, in Uijongbu, north of Seoul. A few of his friends and admirers
gather here at his gravesite on each anniversary of his death. April 28,
2001.
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Freshly caught squid, hanging near the
docks of the port city of Todong, on Ullung Island, between Korea and Japan.
December 30, 2000.
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On Mt. Puso, near the
capital of the ancient Paekche kingdom. November 2000.
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