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| Back in Seoul for the last day of our Korea trip. We went to the National Museum |
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| 사신도 the 4 gods of ancient Korea found in a Goguryeo tomb. This is the White Tiger of the west. I love how demented and weird by modern standards these animals look. this looks nothing like a tiger and almost like an Asian dragon and I love it. |
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| the Red Phoenix but not Phoenix of the south. |
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| The blue dragon of the east. |
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| the black turtle and snake of the north. Also here's a rant. The Korean internet sucks super bad. Sure it's the most wired country in the world but their internet space sucks. Its so hard to find information and images. Also as an illustrator I do photo research all the time and the Korean internet is almost all small sized images, I'm talking about tiny like 400 pixels. Also the inferior Naver/Naver Maps and Mango Plate as the Korean replacement for Google, Google Maps and Yelp are just not as good plain and simple. Jen heard me cursing the Korean internet all trip and I'm still cursing it now when I try to find Korean stuff back in America and have to enter the Korean internet space. Yoon argued that if Korea didn't have their protectionist agenda that includes the internet they wouldn't have been able to crawl from the ashes of the Korean war and become the economic superpower that they are now. I get that but now can they just admit that Naver sucks and start a gov't program that encourages a culture of improving the quality of their internet content? |
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| DO NOT COME TOO CLOSE TO THE ART BRO!!! I seriously want to know what this guy is. It's the second time I've seen him in Korea and he was just labeled demon or something like that |
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| reminds me of Neon Genesis Evangelion anime |
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| very interesting for me seeing how these paintings on silk are done. |
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| that's some pro overwintering protection. They do a great job all over Korea |
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| after meeting Yoon's cousins we were all parting ways and it was our last night and JP came out to see us so we said, hey JP did you want to get one more drink? We went to Hongdae and then 1 drink turned into A LOT. One place we went was this fried jun place that I had gone to years ago and they said they had no SPAM jun even though there was a pile of it outside clearly laying there. I finally got that SPAM jun and more. They shoved some kind of pork and tofu mixture inside those peppers even! Look at this glorious plate. So we had a night just like old times with JP and the poor guy had to go to work the next day and we had to go to the airport. |
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| I love how this needs to be a sign. |
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| I forgot to turn on the GPS at the beginning. Here's everywhere we went in Seoul. the upper right is Seoul National University of Science and Technology. in the east by Cheonho Bridge was the hip hop concert. |
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| I don't think the GPS was on when we went to Pyeongchang (winter olympics site) but there's somehow 2 photos out there to the east |
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| and somehow the GPS says I took 4 photos near the North Korean/China border. |
So that's it for Korea in 2017. 2 trips in one year has done quite a number on my pocketbook. Jen had a bunch of Korean firsts on this trip and got to see Korean life. I got a lot of artist inspiration. And we got to see friend and family. A month is a long time, it felt like a month. More than a month and it gets into the territory of not a vacation and you don't live there so you don't really know what to do with yourself. You can't start investing time in long term Korean life and then you've done all the tourist stuff. So for Korea I think we'd have to do only 2 weeks max or live there for a while. That Korean winter though..... and then we came back to New York and it turned into a horrible harsh winter with matching Korean temperatures. Ok our once in a lifetime Korean dream is over and now it's time to get back to work! Thanks everyone that we hung out with and thanks to the Yoos for all the breakfasts, lunches, dinners, presents, and hosting us!
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