Last sunday our friends May, Jessica (who is nine months pregnant and due any time!), and her husband took us outside of Seoul for a little trip. We had lunch at a quaint little Korean restaurant. It was neat because it had a central kitchen with various little private rooms separated from it by a courtyard. After that we went to the birthplace of the great "Practical Learning" Scholar, Tasan Chong Yakyong (Tasan is his pen name, it means Tea Mountain). My adviser studies him a lot and was just given an award from an association dedicated to him. I study his brother, Augustine Chong Yakchong who was an important early Catholic leader who died a martyr in 1801. They were uncles by marriage to Alexius Hwang Sayong, one of the people I am studying.
The whole gang save me who went on the trip. This was taken at Tasan's birthplace.
Me in front of Tasan's grave.
A model of a crane that Tasan help build. To give an idea of how important he was, our pediatrician said that "Our (Korean) history would be a lot different if he had power," meaning that if Tasan would have been in charge of the country it could have modernized without having become a colony of Japan and would not have suffered division.
A view from Jessica's apartment, focused on the playground.
We live next to the national health insurance building and so there are often protests outside.
The whole gang save me who went on the trip. This was taken at Tasan's birthplace.
Me in front of Tasan's grave.
A model of a crane that Tasan help build. To give an idea of how important he was, our pediatrician said that "Our (Korean) history would be a lot different if he had power," meaning that if Tasan would have been in charge of the country it could have modernized without having become a colony of Japan and would not have suffered division.
A view from Jessica's apartment, focused on the playground.
We live next to the national health insurance building and so there are often protests outside. 
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