Korea Photographs

Tripitaka Koreana Library

An extensive library of wooden tablets containing the Buddhist scriptures is kept in this airy...

Those classical images in Chinese painted scrolls of piney moutains punctuating misty clouds are no...

Peaks have always been holy places. In the eastern mountains of South Korea a woman...

A farmer and his wife harvest ripened barley using hand scythes....

While sitting on the raised clay floor of a traditional Korean room (heated by charcoal...

Lunch is served on a plaited mat during a break in rice harvest. Many dishes...

A horse cart loaded with bundled grain heads back to the farm house for threshing....

Although Korea is nomimally a buddhist country, few active priests or temples remain. This one...

The port city of Busan clings to a hill as fog sweeps in from the...

Traditional fan dance for Korean dancers....

A small town circus entertains the local citizen with a tight-rope walker. The elder men...

Dressed in traditional garb a farmer heads out long the mud dikes for a trip...

Even the old need to lend a hand in tending rice. This guy is thinning...

Flowing white dresses are the appropriate costume for a pilgrimage to this famous temple near...

Walking in the rice fields near Pusan one day I ran into these farmers taking...

This old guy was attending a festival held in a fishing village on the east...

A dragon's tongue tries to lick a fish under the eaves of a temple roof....