
1 minute exposure/taken at Keimyung University in Daegu, South Korea

1 minute exposure/taken at Keimyung University in Daegu, South Korea

On Saturday, I took a stroll through Gyeongbokgung Palace. The foliage was gorgeous,

A young boy waits to see the changing of the guard at Seoul’s Gyeongbokgung Palace.
Ambassador Mark Lippert
with the flight crew was curt
when his beloved pet hound
kept his trip on the ground.
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If you are curious about the story behind this one, please refer to this link.
http://www.koogle.tv/media/news/us-ambassador-mark-lippert-tardy-over-pet-dog/


Some days I bring my camera on a hike and never take it out of my backpack. Today was not one of those days.
초등학교 유리창마다
석양이 빛나고 있다
그 유리창 하나하나가 실컷 신들이었다
-고은
the setting sun shines through
each elementary school window
every one of those windows was an illimitable god
-Ko Un
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This is poem 49 from Flowers of a Moment, which is a small volume of poetry by Korean author Ko Un that I am currently translating into English.


When I can’t sleep, I sometimes sit and stare at the smoke coming up from the factories in our neighborhood. I find it very relaxing, similar to staring at a fish tank.
아우슈비츠에 가서
쌓인 안경들을 보았다
쌓인 산더미 신발들을 보았다
돌아오는 길
서로 다른 창 밖을 바라보았다
-고은
I went to Auschwitz
and saw the piles of glasses
and the mountains of stacked shoes.
On the way back,
I gazed out of a different window.
-Ko Un
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This is poem 24 from Flowers of a Moment, which is a small volume of poetry by Korean author Ko Un that I am currently translating into English.