{"id":3059,"date":"2013-01-29T15:47:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T15:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=3059"},"modified":"2013-01-29T15:48:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T15:48:11","slug":"assorted-images-and-insights-from-seoul-january-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2013\/01\/29\/assorted-images-and-insights-from-seoul-january-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Assorted images and insights from Seoul, January, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3060\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3060\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/crossing-the-hangang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3060\" alt=\"I have always felt there is something sublime about crossing the Hangang River on winter day when the sky is blue. I can remember something of that sensation even from my year in Seoul in 1995. \" src=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/crossing-the-hangang.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I have always felt there is something sublime about crossing the Hangang River on winter day when the sky is blue. I can remember something of that sensation even from my year in Seoul in 1995.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3061\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3061\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/img_4971.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3061\" alt=\"I am not sure if I read it right, but this new financial product seems to be offering you the lottery and a pension at the same time. True innovation. \" src=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/img_4971.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3061\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I am not sure if I read it right, but this new financial product seems to be offering you the lottery and a pension at the same time. True innovation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3063\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3063\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/kim-juung-eun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3063\" alt=\"Photo from January 29, 2013 Joongang Ilbo Newspaper shows leader of North Korea Kim Jung Eun gathered at a table talking to his top advisers. The photo is remarkable in that it is not the flat propaganda photograpy we are used to from North Korea but a rather &quot;Western&quot; looking glimpse of a power meeting. The feel on takes away from it is not that different than most photos of leaders in the rest of the world. The ideological wall seems to have finally fallen on both sides. \" src=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/kim-juung-eun.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from January 29, 2013 Joongang Ilbo Newspaper shows leader of North Korea Kim Jung Eun gathered at a table talking to his top advisers. The photo is remarkable in that it is not the flat propaganda photograpy we are used to from North Korea but a rather &#8220;Western&#8221; looking glimpse of a power meeting. The feel on takes away from it is not that different than most photos of leaders in the rest of the world. The ideological wall seems to have finally fallen on both sides.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3064\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3064\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tower-of-dufu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3064\" alt=\"My daughter and I made this tower out of dufu recently when cooking a dinner together. We could not get it to stand up on its own. Let us call it avant garde food art. \" src=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/tower-of-dufu.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My daughter and I made this tower out of dufu recently when cooking a dinner together. We could not get it to stand up on its own. Let us call it avant garde food art.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3065\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3065\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/park-geun-hye-at-jangchung.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3065\" alt=\"Jangchung Elementary School is just next door to our home and my daughter Rachel is now in the third grade there. It so happens that president elect Park Geun Hye graduated from Jangchung Elementary some years ago. The school put up this congratulatory banner. Rachel had a chance to see Ms. Park up close when she made a surprise visit to the opening of the recent Pororo feature film. \" src=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/park-geun-hye-at-jangchung.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jangchung Elementary School is just next door to our home and my daughter Rachel is now in the third grade there. It so happens that president elect Park Geun Hye graduated from Jangchung Elementary some years ago. The school put up this congratulatory banner. Rachel had a chance to see Ms. Park up close when she made a surprise visit to the opening of the recent Pororo feature film.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9296425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10659529,786,90141,10990001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-2","category-essays","category-seoul","category-today-in-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9296425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}