National Palace Museum of Korea

Although all signage within Gyeongbokgung Palace was also in English, to gain a deeper sense of how the royal family ruled, I recommend a visit to the National Palace Museum of Korea located just outside the palace grounds.

Narita-san Park

I’d walked through Narita-san Park two decades back, but all I remembered from that time was a frozen pond. Although it hadn’t been snowing, it was an icy January 1^stday.

A lesson in calligraphy

I imagined calligraphers at a wooden desk or easel with a thick brush carefully creating black inked strokes into a Haiku poem. But . . .