No "scuttling across the floors of silent seas" for this guy!

Two exuberant pigs celebrating the fact that bacon is delicious--no matter what Josh says.

Lighting candles pays homage to the Buddha.

Josh in front of the Haesogwaneum Statue, a representation of Gwaneum, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. A Bodhisattva is an enlightened being who, out of compassion, forgoes nirvana in order to save others. There is an amazing video that pays homage to the Bodhisattva of Compassion here. Josh likes the fact that Gwaneum represents vegetarianism; vegetarian restaurants are often decorated with her image, and she appears in many Buddhist vegetarian pamphlets and magazines.

Joshua at the Bongeunsa Entrance

On Christmas day, Joshua and I visited the Bongeunsa Temple and the COEX complex. The Mireukdaebul Statue of Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future is the largest Buddha image in Korea.

This is the itinerary for our upcoming trip (1/22 - 2/1) to Hong Kong, Bangkok and Saigon.

(Double click on the map to make it larger.)

One of the lecture halls at Yonsei.

Danny with one of his brightest students.

(Little children on the subway routinely tug at their Mother's sleeve, point to Danny, and ask "Santa Claus?")

A Seoul waterfall near the church where the wedding was held.

One of my favorite students got married this weekend, and I had the good fortune to attend the ceremony.

Waterwheel outside a popular restaurant.

Old Korea juxtaposed with New Korea. The statue is of General Kang Kam-ch'an.

One of the Fulbright Fellows playing the banjo with a Korean musician playing the haegum.

A lake and village north of Seoul where Albert and I spent the weekend.

The lake I visited this weekend.

Somehow I've got to find time to get to the Seoul Museum of Chicken Art!

Dinner with my buddies.

One of my few Western meals (chicken and pasta).

June, sitting to my right, is the graduate student who recently got married (photos above).

An end of the semester lunch with my graduate students.

U. S. Ambassador Kathleen Stevens speaking to the Fulbright Fellows.

U. S. Ambassador Kathleen Stevens (front center) with the Korean chapter of the Fulbright Alumni Association. Ambassador Stevens had just delivered a speech at the Association's annual meeting.

Danny with two Fulbright colleagues, Pingchao and Sheena.

Copies of the Korean translation of Movies and Mental Illness being sold at one of Danny's workshops at Korea University.

Joshua in the snow.

Albert, Danny and two of Danny's students in front of the Yonsei Christmas Tree. (Yonsei is a Christian University.)

It is snowing in Seoul (December, 2008).

My friend Albert van der Waag has come to Seoul to visit me. Albert is one of my colleagues from the American University of the Caribbean in Sint Maarten. He came to Seoul from Mumbai where he narrowly missed the shooting spree at the Taj Hotel.

This is one of the happiest people I know--he works outside the main gate of Yonsei University, and I frequently start the day with one of his omelete sandwitches.

"Loveland" is a collection of erotic statues in Jeju.

Joshua in Jeju Island (southern tip of Korea).

Attending a musical with my friends Dong-gwi and Hee-Kyung.

A symbol of the desire for a unified Korea.

Posing with one of the DMZ Security guards. Note the guard's taekwondo stance.

The Joint Security Area (JSA) at the DMZ

My four favorite students from my Abnormal Psychology class. I show a film each week on Wednesday night, and we spend an hour discussing the film and its portrayal of psychopathology on Thursday morning. This week's lecture topic was dementia, and the film was Iris. It is fun for me to be able to teach a class that uses Movies and Mental Illness as a text (Wedding Boyd & Niemiec, 2005).

The Ramada Hotel where I live is only a few blocks from the US Embassy. The Embassy has set up several speaking engagements for me at various Korean universities, and there may be opportunities to lecture in Japan while I'm here.

Hanging out with my son in Itaewon.

My undergraduate Abnormal Psychology class.

Young people (and sometimes old people) who are in love bring two identical locks to Namsan Tower, mark them with an affectionate comment, and leave them linked forever on the chain link fence surrounding one of the platforms overlooking the city of Seoul. There are thousands of these locks . . . don't know if anyone takes the time to remove them when the relationship goes sour.

There are dozens of these figures in Namsan Park and around Namsan Tower.

My graduate students.

The well manicured grounds of Yonsei (I had just come from giving a speech).

We had Obama with us at the Democrats Abroad rally. See this site and note the last paragraph.

Danny and Joshua at an Obama Get Out the Vote event November 2nd.

Danny with Dr. Dong-gwi Lee and four counseling psychology graduate students.

This is how I spend many of my evenings . . . watching CNN!

My three favorite Radama employees.

Danny with Hyunjoo Song, a psychology colleague attending the annual meeting of the Korean Society of Clinical Psychology. Danny is holding a Korean translation of Current Psychotherapies.

The subways are wonderful . . . but sometimes crowded during rush hours.