Harabeoji and Halmeoni in Boon

My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

SOUTH KOREA | Monday, 14 January 2013 | Views [360] | View Larger Image

Going Solo on a Sunday. In urban areas, weekdays are for Seoulites to dance to the tune of long hours in offices and businesses where eleven o’clock in the evening still manifests rush hour commute. Weekends are reserved for other obligations like how most spent this Sunday with family. This grandpa spent his with religion. (Seoul, South Korea)

Tags: korean national parks, buddhist monk, grandpa, seoul, south korea

Respite in the Street. From early morning to late in the evening, this grandma reaches over to serve, skewers fish cakes, rolls mochi, washes cups, keeps the boilers and fryers fired up and filled with comfort food cooking, all in about 60square feet of cosmic rhythm with passersby combating the cold weather. (Gimhae, South Korea)

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Medusa into the Mountain. A grandma gathers her cuttings in a bundle and crowns it to her head while she wears her rubber boots in her left hand and her sun visor in her right hand as she balances her way up the incline. Enervated from the scorching heat, she verbalizes the weariness she feels which is ironic of the energetic voice emerging in full force from the core of her diaphragm so that one could hear even meters away. Retirement is a word that rolls down the mountains and glides through the valleys without resting on any of the toiling bodies ripened by laboring the land. (Namwon, South Korea)

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Harabeoji and Halmeoni in Boon

My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

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