Thursday, June 16, 2011

Coree_o_graphie / Korea_graphy

Korea - June 2011


Yin and yang and the four emements...

Royal tomb of Joseon dynasty

dynasty unknown


Martial arts at Seoul Tower


Sharpening the sword


Catching bubbles


Trees made of padlocks overlooking the city...

Young face, old soul

Busy downtown


Yesterday, today



Gyeongbokgung Palace





Is the beard real?







 Being a tourist has its moments


Silly...


Subway scenes

 Patrice, his translator and a nice old man



 Los dos hermanos / the two brothers in front of Arko theater


The Professor of theater studies




The national museum of Korea

 





A very famous artist in Korea





A tourist


A Buddha












Dinner with a local friend of Patrice's



Some beautiful Korean people...
















Off to Daegu (2:30 hours from Seoul)

Hye Kyong


Donghwasa Temple






Patrice and his translator, cultural informant and protégée
Buddha standing there,  watching

Beautiful meditation room, with Buddha outside looking in


Aspiring little buddhas

Searching for the Buddha within



They are half way to enlightenment



Gayasan Haein Temple

Nice toll booth







The buddha of nature

The buddha nature

 Awareness of Beauty

Alertness



Modern Korean monastic life


Simply walking

Off to where?

Three amigos





Mindfulness of the bell ringer

Wake up!


Not now, I'll call you back!






Monk hairstyle




More beautiful Korean people




















Thank you Patrice and Hye Kyong!!!


Last day in Korea...

Not far from official buildings, tourist areas and constructions of national pride, just behind the 'main' roads, live Korean people, busy with their 'dayliness', minding their own business, winning their own little battles;
They should be part of any tourist album.... We should be grateful to them!

Non loin des batiments officiels, des beaux quartiers touristiques, des édifices de gloire nationale, juste derièere les grandes artères, vit le peuple coréen, vaquant à leur 'quotidienneté', s'occupant de leurs petites affaires, gagnant de peites victoires. Ils devraient figurer dans tous les albums photos de tous les touristes.... Nous devons leur témoigner notre reconnaissance!




Pre-wireless and bluetooth times
Avant l'ère du sans fil et de Blue tooth


My job? Disentanglings things
Mon job? Désemmeler les choses 


 She was collecting glass bottles
Elle ramasait les bouteilles en verre


Blue collar, white gloves worker
Col bleu, gants blancs


 Delivering the goods
Livraison à domicile


 Universal rule of mechanic work place decoration: must have a photo of a sexy woman baring something.
Loi universelle de décoration d'atelier de garaguste: doit avoir une photode femme sexy exhibant une partie de son corps?


Man at work
Homme au boulot


 Globalization
Mondialisation


 Little restaurant for the locals
Petit restaurant pour les gens du quartier


Too narrow for cars
Trop étroit pour les voitures

LG: Life's Good


 Go to your own pace, follow your rythm
Marche à ton pas, suis ton rythme


Must be the children's bedroom
ça doit etre la chambre des enfants



 High rises no longer have roofs
Les grandes tours n'ont plus de toit


 
Every day he takes a photo of these four items, saying that they change position all the time.
The old buddhist concept of impermenance...
Tous les jours il prend une photo de ces quatre objets; disant qu'ils changent de position quotidiennement
Vieux concept boudhiste de l'impermanence...