Korea Photographs

Tripitaka Koreana Library

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

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

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

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

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

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

Traditional fan dance for Korean dancers....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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