friday night fried chicken dinner in dongrae.
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howard pyle
Marooned by howard pyle.1909. oil on canvas. via wikimedia commons
Howard Pyle illustrator (1853 – 1911).
Which Shall be Captain (1911) via wikimedia commons
Bunker Hill (1898) via wikimedia commons
war memorial of korea
war memorial of korea. yongsan, seoul.
anti-aircraft guns. 
galleries with names carved on black marble.
casualties of the korean war.
from south carolina
the memorial and the dragon hill neighborhood.
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north korean high ranking official publicly executed by anti-aircraft gun shot. may 2013.
Foreign Policy: A Story of Paranoia and Gore: Why North Korea Uses Such Brutal Execution Methods
North Korean Famine (Arduous March) 1994-1998.
viajes por tierra en bici – corea
daejeon to sejong city
120 km south of seoul near the middle of the country.
daejeon to sejong city (solar bike path )
goseong-gun to samcheok
unification observatory in goseong-gun county south to gopo village in samcheok by bike (east coast)
busan to seoul
busan > follow the nakdong river north> cross the middle of the country on the saejae bicycle road to where the han river begins > ride the hangang up to seoul
four rivers trails
four rivers trail system (korea joongang daily)
- hangang (seoul) paldang station > chungju dam ~ 136-224 km
- geumgang (west, middle of the country) daecheong dam > geum river estuary ~ 146 km
- yeongsangang (south west tip of the peninsula) damyang dam downstream > mokpo yeongsan river estuary weir ~ 133 km
- nakdonggang (busan) ~ 100-378 km (korea herald)
- saejae bicycle road (hilly link between the nakdong and the han) ~ 100 km
riverside biking trails in korea (pdf)
seoul bicycle website (in korean)
seodaemun prison camp
seodaemun prison camp
built in the early 1900s to hold korean nationalists during the japanese occupation of korea. after wwii, the south korean government used the prison until it was shut down in the 1980s. reopened as a museum in the 90s.
high school romance at the prison.
a boy reads a pokemon book, a character created by japanese video game designer satoshi tajiri, in front of a wall of koreans held at the camp during the occupation.
interrogation scenes.
bamboo under the nails torture.
solitary.
angry guard.
an elementary school kid on a field trip chokes a guard mannequin in one the torture chambers.
the former prison lies west of dongnimmun station on the seoul subway line 3.
korea, china, manchuria and the pacific under japanese occupation.
via wikimedia commons.
coronado sets out to gimhae
we set out west in the early afternoon. drove through mandeok tunnel and over the nakdong gang. arrived around four in gimhae, ancient capital of the gaya kingdom. my new scooter, coronado, choked up climbing a hill. it refused to restart. carburetor problems. all scooter shops were closed. we coasted on coronado down until the street leveled off. we pushed it for about a kilometer, passing old scrap metal dealers and sleepy streets. parked it under inje university’s light rail transit station next to two other dead scooters. we shall return for you.
coronado sets out to the north by frederic remington via wikipedia
frederic remington painter, sculptor, writer, illustrator.
harry truman’s rebuilding of the white house article in the new york times.
book to get:
bicycle diaries
food, beer, galmegi brewery
monsters, communists, kidnappings, the koreas
podcast, movies and books.
kidnapped by n. korea to make films: act one of this american life 556: same bed, different dreams.
film director shin sang-ok 신상옥 and wive, ex-wife and re-wife, actor choi eun-hee 최은희
“pulgasari” japanese poster via wikipedia.
full movie with subtitles
pulgasari. 1985. north korea. godzilla-type film directed by mr. shin.
capitalist/feudal lord-crushing proletarian monsta.
mother and a guest. south korea. 1961. starring mrs. choi.
A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator’s Rise to Power by paul fischer
on amazon kindle
shin’s and choi’s memoir: either called kingdom of kim or i am a movie or Chogugŭn Chŏhanŭl Chŏmŏlli (My Motherland is Faraway) published in 1988/2001.
take a look at on the art of cinema (published in 1973) by the late kim jong-il.
eomgwansan
monday, june 3. 2013