A few other pics from my year-end, year-beginning rambling around Korea:

A lighthouse and sculpture near Busan.

Seafood for sale in Busan.

Candles from the Buddhist temple New Year's ceremony. This year's ceremony opened with a parade of people carrying lit candles and paying their respects to sacred objects on the temple grounds. Candles, lighting the faces of celebrants, beautiful.

One of twelve zodiac statues on Oe Do - 2007 was the year of the pig,
according to Chinese Zodiac culture.

An inflatable dummy on an anchored boat in the middle of
the river, near the fortress of Jinju. Which begs the question: WHY????

A cartoon depiction of the Jinju heroine Nongae painted on the side of an
industrial building with a "love" motel in the background.

The sun, just escaped from the clouds, near the Hyangiram Hermitage near Yeosu.

The kitschy Turtle Ship replica.
No doubt it is hard to see what I was excited about but what the hey...!

Jinju. Even beautiful at night.

Ciao!
Laura