Final KyeongJu Post

I guess this is mostly Gyerim. Not in chronological order.

This first one is a Silla-era poem. The guys had to study it back in the day for University entrance exams. If you look closely you will see it's not in Hangul, but Chinese characters. To my family, I note that with the little feet I think it looks kind of like that egg sculpture by our old house.


This is as we're leaving. I doubt we were supposed to cut across the field with the burial mound in it but never mind.

"He's more machine than man now." Here we have one of the Darth Trees of Gyerim. It's more than half concrete and some of the wood is rotting... but some of it is still producing fresh green shoots. I have to assume that the reason they go to these elaborate lengths to preserve specific trees instead of just tending to forest ecology has to do with the mytho-historical significance.


When we got back to POSTECH the light was still pretty so I kept snapping away. And the leaves have been pretty ever since so I have lots more photos.

And tomorrow, Homigot.