This isn't even all of the pictures.
Walk 400 meters, turn right when you see a huge spiral pointing at the sky. No street names here.
Cheonggyecheon at night. <3
FAVORITE.
Anthropomorphic Chinese Zodiac animals, the Year of the Rabbit. (Does the noble pose of this rabbit remind anyone else of Redwall?)
Ssireum (Korean wrestling).
RAWR.
Mythic animals guarding the entrance to the lantern palace.
@twcwar I made sure to include "The Little Penguin" sign, in case you couldn't tell what it was.
It's the solar system, if you can't tell. And a rocket labeled "Korea" being shot into space.
Heartz.
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Oh my god! Redwall!!! That's hilarious you thought of that... Where did those books ever go?
-Sara
Pictures pictures pictures! Makes me wish I could see more of Korea than the inside of this airport!
Yes Redwall! You're right, that rabbit definitely looks like it could exist in the Redwall world.
Aaaaaah, this is an overwhelming post. So much pretty! I think I liked the cranes the best, although I also have a soft spot for the deer & all the simple lanterns dangling in color-coordinated rows.
Also, didn't we have a somewhat epic conversation about Redwall sometime this summer? I seem to remember us half-naked with frosting and clicking through google image search results to find the book covers of Redwall books you read.
@Sara: I think I confiscated the redwall books at some point. I'm pretty sure they're sitting in one of the boxes of books that I have sitting in dad's closet.
@Molly: Yay for your brief stay in Korea! I'm glad my blog kept you company during your layover.
@Jane: I reallyreallyreally liked the deer and cranes too (as is perhaps made obvious by the multiple pictures I felt compelled to take of them). But the fans, man. Something about the fucking fans.
And we totally had that conversation about redwall and bookcovers this summer. Fuck if I remember why, though.
Pam, I don't know what I would do without your blog and its Redwall references. I must have read at least seven of those in the course of my childhood. Mossflower, anybody?
But wait, if the earth is that blue and green lantern, then WHERE IS THE ROCKET BEING SHOT FROM? (GOD??? If so, why does it say KOREA on it?)
Am I the only one who never read Redwall? I was, embarrassingly, into the Babysitter's Club. But only books about Claudia. The other babysitters sucked.
@Audra MOSSFLOWER ALL THE WAY. Martin the Warrior was my favorite, though. And I definitely read at least 14 of them, as many as were published by approximately the time I was a freshman in high school. At which time I finally decided I was too old for this bullshit.
Also, maybe Korea transcends the boundaries of earth? But then, if that rocket is Korea, then it also kind of transcends the boundaries of the solar system, because it's bigger than at least 3 planets stacked on top of each other.
@Jane Don't feel too bad. I was into Sweet Valley High for an embarrassingly long time. My parents bought me the Redwall books, but the the Sweet Valley high ones I had to sneak from the Grandville Public Library.
also @Jane, in retrospect, maybe the reason I liked the clusterfuck of fans is because it reminded me of you and @Audra and your clusterfuck of umbrellas.
Yeah, it seemed like a good (and appropriate) time to catch up. Yay for the free internet!
I don't know that I have a favorite Redwall book. I liked them all, and also get the names mixed up. Was Mossflower the one with that one fox, Slagar or Slager or something? Martin the Warrior was really good, but always made me cry. :(
Mossflower is the prequel to Redwall (chronologically, it comes between Martin the Warrior and Redwall). Slagar the Cruel makes his first appearance in Redwall, has ambiguous loyalties, is a tortured soul, etc. Then he kills a few mice, runs away. In Mattimeo (which is maybe book #4 chronologically) he kidnaps children and his loyalties are no longer ambiguous.
And I've definitely cried to Martin the Warrior at least a few times.
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