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.

Danny spent the weekend in Gyeongju, the ancient capital of the Shilla dynasty. He learned a little more about Bodhidharma, known as "Dalma" in Korean.