Last weekend, we had the wonderful opportunity to attend the wedding of Nate's co-worker in Seoul. Afterward, we spent the afternoon with our friend Kristine and her husband ILwan--who drove us around and dropped us at various places so we could take in the wonders of the beautiful Shilla hotel, Blue River (a lovely, romantic waterway) and some of the one-car-narrow back streets of Samcheong-dong, an up and coming artsy neighbourhood near one of the palaces (Gyeongdukgung).
ILwan managed to maneouver the car down these extremely narrow streets in Samcheong-dong. He used to live in this neighbourhood before is became a tourist hot spot. This street preserves some of the appearance of traditional Korean architecture.
The doors were fascinating.
An older man caught me taking pictures of this door closure. He said it's one of the really old ones and that when he was a child, this is the kind of door closure everyone had. The loop hooks onto the opposite peg and a bar is dropped through the chain.
This one is a replica of the old style.
A convenient place to leave the mail.
The adoornments are fairly striking.
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