Trip to the South-East

Last week a few days away in the south east (mainly Kyeongsando) with John Kater (recently retired from CDSP, Berkeley and visiting professor at Sungkonghoe University for the last semester; travelling with Jeremiah Yang, vice-president of SKHU. Staying with Benedictine Sisters at Yangsan, near Pusan.


the garden of the sisters' convent near Yangsan.







With Sisters Martha and Michaela visiting Tongdosa.





At one of the smaller hermitages near Tongdosa.





Pots of lotus in the temple gardens at Tongdosa.


Monks working hard in the gardens


Lotus blossoms at a small hermitage near Tongdosa.



A typical East Coast scene. A fishing village with tourist facilities built on top of it.


Positive thinking indeed - to the extent that pigs might fly.


This seems to be a clove of garlic - a sculpture at a roadside stop on the Jungang Expressway heading north to Chuncheon.




In

115,000 won to fill a tank with diesel. (About 110 USD, 58 GBP, 147 NZD). Diesel is now about 2,000 won a litre, up from 900 won a litre about 5 years ago.

President Lee already has the signs up advertising his hometown in the conservative belt of the southeast, near Pohang.

The mountain pass (I forgot the name) on one of the roads running westwards from the East Coast.