I’d like to do a temple stay and also some hiking/sightseeing in the Taebaek Mountains, particularly Seoraksan, but neither of these options seem suitable for a toddler. So those may be things that we just have to leave for another time when, we hope, we’ll return for a visit.
What about you? Any readers out there want to share the places in Korea that we absolutely should see before we go? Before our d-day, I’ll try to do a list of top must-see places for travelers to Korea, even if I don’t personally make it to all of them.
The photos are from Saturday’s RAS tour to Icheon, Gyeonggi-do, the home to many of Korea’s best traditional ceramic artists. I’m still learning to use the new camera, so my pictures don’t begin to do the work justice. The level of artistry is just amazing.
Icheon has been the center of Korean ceramics for several hundred years, as the area is apparently the site of abundant good materials for making clay. You can learn a bit more about the history of Korean ceramics here.
It was so interesting to see so many professional artists, many of them second- and third-generation craftsmen, in a country where so much emphasis seems to be placed on going to a top university and then on to a career as a doctor, lawyer, or businessman. Yet, Korea has very strong artistic cultural traditions, seen in the preservation of several intricate traditional arts, crafts, and traditional music.
An area of low pressure over Guangdong is bringing showers
and thunderstorms to the south China coastal areas and the
northern part of the South China Sea.
Weather forecast for today
Cloudy to overcast with scattered showers and a few squally
thunderstorms. Showers will be heavy at times at first. The
maximum temperature will be around 29 degrees. Fresh
southwesterly winds.
