Archiving Korea

So, I find it necessary to rewind and share some photos with you from our last 6 months, and I suppose in turn, stories from our past 6 months here in Korea. Todays rewind/archive is to Nagan traditional village, near Suncheon, about 20 km from here. At the time we went, it was our first trip to Suncheon where some of our friends from the JLP program live (Canadians), Virginia and Steve. However, we didn't visit them at this time. We went instead with our good friend Eric ( Ireally need to find out his Korean name sometime). Eric was living in Suncheon at the time, before he moved up to Gurye (where we are). Since Suncheon is the closest place to see a movie, we went and followed it up with a visit to this folk village the next day. As you will see, we saw fresh faces, knocked a few koreans off a board and took some cheesy couple-in-love shots. All the rage here.



These are called "Chang seung"; they are Korean totem poles that are traditionally placed at the entrance to a village for protection. They are very cool. These ones are still being carved and made. For some finished ones, here is a picture of Bryce last year in Ulsan where we encountered our first Changseungs:

And this year, with Eric, hanging with their homies:


Big happy family....