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...