These were some of my very best students; they were all Korean-American students who had come to Yonsei to learn more about Korean history and culture. They were extremely bright and hard working and it was a genuine joy to be their professor.

The Cheonggyecheon River was one of my favorite parts of Seoul.

Taking a break on the trip to Cambodia.  Note the huge head in the background.

Angkor Wat.

In front of the magnificent temple at Angkor Wat.

Almost all transportation in Siam Reap is via Tuk Tuks.

When we were tired of temples, we drank Angkor, a very good Cambodian beer.

One of the hundreds of images carved into the rock of the temples of Angkor.

Cambodian children playing jump rope, a universal game for children around the world.

The trees are very old--and very big--in Angkor Wat.

Massage parlors are ubiquitous in Thailand and Cambodia.

Danny's masseuse in Siam Reap (Cambodia)

There is a ball inside the mouth of the dragon; if you can remove it without damaging the dragon's mouth, you are guaranteed immortality (of course, nobody can do this, making the point that death will come to us all).

Danny parasailing in Pattaya.

Foot massage is one of the joys of travel in Asia.

Aphorisms are posted on many of the trees in Wat Umong; you are expected to contemplate the various messages as you walk through the gardens and grounds of the temple.

The entrance to Wat Umong (where Danny studied Buddhism and meditation in 1999 when completing his first Fulbright in Chiang Mai, Thailand).

The person who conquers himself is more powerful than the soldier who captures the world.

An image depicting our inevitable death and decay.

Buddhist iconography reminding us that we all carry the spores of our own death within us.

William James wrote that life is a banquet--but there is always a skeleton peering in at the window!

One of Danny's favorite Buddhist statues at Wat Umong.

Thai monks line up to receive food in their begging bowls; Thais are eager to contribute as a way of "making merit."

These images from Wat Umong in Chiang Mai are designed to get the viewer to pause and think about the pain experienced by those animals we eat.

Note the praying cows.

Even fish feel pain.

What if we treated humans the way we treat animals?

Thai Buddhists recommend fruit and massage for the treatment of whatever ails you.

It only looks like Danny is pretending to be a pirate; actually the scarf is very functional and keeps his bald head from burning.

Danny visited Thailand and got to spend some time with former colleagues from the Department of Psychiatry at the Chiang Mai University School of Medicine. This is the house he lived in while completing his first Fulbright (visiting scholar quarters on the medical school campus).

I was very touched when my Advanced Theories of Counseling students took me out for a goodbye lunch.

Dr. Kyong Mee Chung, Chair of the Yonsei Department of Psychology (and a University of Hawaii graduate)

The Yonsei Psychology faculty took me out for a goodbye dinner.

Kids playing in the water at City Hall.

An antismoking ad at City Hall.

A friendly toilet seat at a local restaurant.

Summertime has come to Seoul.

Protests of one kind or another are common in Seoul, especially near City Hall (a few blocks from the Ramada where I live). This particular protest relates to concerns about potential government complicity in the suicide of former Korean President Roh Moo-hyun.

The divine bell of King Seongdeok is considered a Korean national treasure.

Bodily functions are treated as something normal and ordinary in Korea (everybody does it!); for example, there is no door to the men's restroom in the Gyeongju train station.

Two of my favorite students from my Health Psychology class.

The Bulguksa Temple in winter.

Outside my office; taken after the last lecture in my undergraduate health psychology class.

The Bonjonbul Buddha in the Seokguram Grotto.

Visiting the Seokguram Grotto and the Bulguksa Temple were high spots in my visit to Gyeongju.

Overlooking the East Sea far ahead beyond the mountain ridges from the southeastern tip of the Korean Peninsula, Seokguram stands as a proud testimony to Korea's brilliant tradition of classical Buddhist sculpture. A small but noble pantheon of divinities symbolizing Buddhist philosophy and aestheticism, the eighth-century cave temple is a structure of sublime beauty culminating religious belief, science and fine arts which flowered in the golden age of Asian art. Seokguram is located near the tummit of Mt. Tohamsan, east of the historic city of Gyeongju, capital of the Silla dynasty (57B.C.-A.D.935).

A monk paying homage to the Buddha.

Children flying (very impressive) kites in the park

Fierce temple carvings.

Burial mounds are ubiquitous in Gyeongju.

Phallic totems are common in Korea.

Acrobats performing.

Gyeongju was the capital of the Silla dynasty for 992 years. The Cheomseongdae Observatory is the oldest observatory in the world.

The strange structure of Cheomsongdae is an ancient astronomical observatory. It is probably the most well known of Korea's historic remains. The stone astronomical observatory was built during the reign of Queen Ssondeok in 634. The bottle-shaped tower was constructed on a square base. It is considered the oldest observatory in the world and one of the oldest man-made structures left in Korea. How it was operated is not known.