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).