Korean Retrospective: Jeonju
Jeonju’s name roughly translating to “the perfect region”, it is a tourist city that takes pride in the tradition and nature. It is surrounded by beautiful mountains and parks giving it a more rural feel than either Busan or Seoul, and the tourist part was peppered with historical buildings and temples.
Korean Retrospective: Busan
ICCV 2021 seems like a million years ago.
Seeing people with masks in my photos doesn’t seem strange at all, and keeping one’s distance from others doesn’t seem as cold now as it did then. In a way, some aspects of Korean culture (such as food, snacks, and music) seem more natural now when I have plethora of Korean stores and amazing restaurants at my doorstep. Originally, I was intending to post a series of photographs as a journal of sorts, like I did for my “Mexico journals” but I somehow never got around to it. This feels as good of a time as any to continue posting the photographs from that trip, so here we go. First in line: Busan.
Gamcheon Culture Village
One of my favourite places we have visited in Korea was Gamcheon Village in Busan. According to wikipedia, the “village has been reborn as Busan’s most colourful and artistic spot”. Here are a few images from the visit there.