Category: Life in Korea

This tree was between a Buddha and a cell phone tower, in Seoul in November, 2010.

[daily log: walking, 4km;]

This tree appeared in my past – at a small hermitage along a mountain trail day hike, in southern South Korea in October, 2010.

[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr;]

This tree anticipated spring, but six years ago, in April, 2018, along my walk to work in Goyang, South Korea.

[daily log: walking, 1km;]

This tree is under a giant Korean flag. I took this picture in January, 2009, walking home from work on a Saturday afternoon.

It’s good to not get too monotonous with the local tree-pics.

[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]

This tree is a guest tree from my past. I took this picture in July, 2009, in Seoul. The tree is behind a statue of Son Byeong-hui, a Korean religious leader, modernization advocate, and later independence activist, who died in Japanese prison in 1922.

[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 3hr]

This tree is a guest tree from December 2007. I took the picture walking around Goyang City in South Korea.

[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr]

This tree (I guess one of those silhouettes on yonder ridge) was witness to a spectacular sky – picture taken from my apartment window in Goyang, Gyeonggi, South Korea in January, 2018.

[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 9hr]

This tree is another guest-tree from my past. I took this picture on New Year’s Eve, 2011, a block north of my apartment, on 강선로 [gangseon-no], a major road in Ilsan, South Korea.

Quote of the day: “Earth is literally the worst planet I’ve ever lived on” – a meme on the internet. I don’t mean this in a bad way. Earth is also the best planet so far.

[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 9hr]

This tree is another guest tree from my past – I traveled all day and was offline. I took this picture in December, 2014, while walking to work one day in Ilsan (Goyang), South Korea. I wanted to show the banner on the footbridge, advertising a NASA exhibition at the local convention center, but the tree bore witness.

[daily log: walking, 5km; driving, 6hr; ferrying, 3hr; airplaning, 2hr]

This tree is a guest tree from my past. I took this picture looking out the window of the janitor’s closet at my place of work in Goyang City, South Korea in November, 2012.

[daily log: walking, 3.5km;]

This tree is yet another guest tree from my past (can you tell I’ve been really busy, and not taking pictures of photogenic trees around me, lately?). I took this picture in November, 2017, from my apartment window in Goyang City, South Korea. I guess I mean the tree that is down in the sidewalk in front of the building opposite on the right, the building with all the advertising on it. It was a tree I walked by frequently, in many years in that neighborhood.

I had weird, intense dreams of my job at Aramark, last night. I was reviewing complex data structures and dissecting very baroque invoices which the company sent to customers, looking for errors.

[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 6hr]

This tree is a guest tree from my past. I took this picture while on a hike through a rural area near Paju, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea (경기도 파주시), in October, 2011.

[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 5hr]

This tree is a guest tree from my past. I took this picture in October, 2011, while walking around the neighborhood where my work was in Goyang City, South Korea (경기도 고양시 일산서구). It is a metasequoia (Chinese dawn redwood), which abounded as planted ornamentals in my area in Korea.

[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 8hr]

This tree is a guest tree from my past. I took this picture while walking to work in Goyang City, South Korea, in November, 2015. The route was frequent enough that I know exactly where this tree is, even 8 years later.

[daily log: walking, 3km;]

This tree is a guest tree from my past. It was growing in a row with some other trees along Sejong-ro, in front of the Gyeongbok Palace (under restoration at that time) in downtown Seoul, in July, 2008.

[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 8hr]

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This tree is a guest tree from my past. I took this picture in April, 2013, along my walk from my apartment to where I worked, in the Ilsan district in Goyang City (경기도 고양시 일산서구).

[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 8hr]

This tree is yet another guest tree from my past. It’s in the courtyard of a Buddhist temple called Bomunsa (보문사) which is on an island west of Seoul. I visited the temple during an excursion in August, 2013.

[daily log: walking, 2km;]

This tree is a guest tree from my past. There’s a tree and a magpie on a rope fence. I took this photo almost exactly 10 years ago, in June, 2013. It’s in the park on the hill a few blocks from my apartment in Ilsan (Goyang City), South Korea (경기도 고양시 정밠산공원).

[daily log: walking, 6.5km; dogwalking, 3.5km]

This tree is a guest tree from my past. I took this picture of a tree just outside of Gwangju, South Korea, in June of 2010, on the flank of Mudeung Mountain (광주 무등산). I had gone there on a day-hiking trip with some colleagues from work. I believe the reservoir is this one (map link).

[daily log: walking, 4km;]

This tree is a guest tree from my past. I took this picture in February, 2010, at the Geumsan Temple in South Korea (금산사), where I was staying for a 5-day “templestay” – a kind of intensive lay Buddhist monk experience. It’s the entrance area. The temple is one of the more famous ones in the peninsula.

[daily log: walking, 5km; dogwalking, 3km]

This tree is a guest tree from my past. I took this picture from the window of my bus on my morning commute in Yeonggwang County, South Korea, in November, 2010. 이 사진은 2010년 11월 전라남 영광군에서 촬영했습니다.

[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 8hr]

This tree is a guest tree from my past. The tree has a magpie in it. I took the picture in May, 2013 (10 years ago) in the neighborhood near my place of work in Ilsan, South Korea.

[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 8hr]

This tree is a guest tree from my past. I took this picture in May, 2011, near my apartment in Ilsan (Goyang City), South Korea. I had just moved to my new neighborhood to start my new job at Karma Academy, where I stayed working for 7 years – the longest I’ve ever had one job.

[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 7hr]

This tree is a guest from my past. It’s alongside some metro rail tracks between downtown Seoul and Ilsan, where I used to live. I took this picture in January, 2009.

The mountain in the background is the prominent Bukhansan. The large, highly-visible sign on the roof says “Dream Tree Daycare”.

[daily log: walking, 5km; dogwalking, 3.5km]

This tree is a guest tree from my past. I took this picture on December 16, 2010, when I was living down in Yeonggwang, Jeolla, South Korea. It’s in front of a building where a coworker lived – we were carpooling to work and had stopped there to pick him up.

I don’t mind driving in snow. But this ice-with-rain-on-top that we get here is terrifying. So Art and I didn’t go to town shopping today. We stayed home. We have plenty of food. It was so slippery on the road, I didn’t even walk the dog.

[daily log: walking, 1km;]

This tree is a guest tree from my past. And really it’s not so much a tree, as me – although there are undeniable trees present. Standing along pedestrian street in Ilsan, near my home, in November, 2011. My friend Peter (who’s visited me here in Alaska) took this picture.

[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 8.5hr]

This tree is a guest tree from my past. It was a tree (among other trees) I saw in the forest on the north side Gobong mountain, in my home in Korea, in October, 2014. I saw semi-abandoned chairs there, which are ubiquitous in rural South Korea.

[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 8.5hr]