Walk Through Samcheong-Dong

I've had a few days off from work because of some university festival going on. All I know is that afternoon classes are canceled, which means I've had Wednesday, Thursday, and today off, and that the festival includes job fairs and musical performances. Anyway, this break is coming at the right time for me, with only a few weeks left in the semester and both me and the students getting tired.

Anyway, last weekend Elena and I were able to walk around Insadong and Samcheong-dong. Elena snapped some pictures of Jogyesa, the Buddhist temple near Insadong, and some of the lantern decorations hung up for Buddha's Birthday, which is a holiday next week. The Lotus Lantern Festival is a Korean tradition where there is a parade of brightly colored and lit lanterns that are marched by many people along the street during the course of a whole evening. We got a kick out of the monk climbing up the tree outside the temple here.


Also, we got a chance to walk through a neighborhood we hadn't seen before: Samcheong-Dong. Up past where the trendy restaurants and galleries thin out near the Seoul's largest palace Gyeongbokgung, there were a bunch of houses with traditional architecture, and a nice, peaceful quiet walk. I relied on Elena's photographic skills to capture some of the images that we saw:


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