Pictures from Korea,
July - September 1994

Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea

(Note: All pictures are the property of Thomas M. Mathewson unless otherwise noted. Non-commercial reproduction and distribution of these pictures is allowed provided that credit and authorship is also reproduced and distributed with the pictures.)

• Korean Folk Village: restored traditional house
  
• Korean Folk Village: wall thatched to keep it from dissolving
  

• Front gate to Osan Air Base
  
• Me, Rudy Peart, & John Abdale
  
• Mary and Aranya, at Mary's retirement
• Anyone remember the Happy House Bar? It burned down!
  

• Royal palace secret garden
  
• One of many markets in Seoul
  
• View of Seoul from Nam San tower
  
• 500 year old rocket launcher
  
• More 500 year old artilery
  
• Admiral Yi's "Turtle Boat" Metal clad war ship from 13th century
  
• Reconstruction of Neolithic village at the Han River
  

• Wall around Suwon
  
• Gate to Suwon Temple
  
• Monument at temple
  
• 2nd gate at temple
  
• Last gate to temple
  
• The temple
  

• Us, on a fort at the Island
  
• Barbed wire to keep out North Koreans
  
• Ancient burial site
  
• Kwang Song Fort, site of U.S. - Korean battle in 1871
  

• North Korean HQ, across from conference rooms
  
• The Conference Room The DMZ goes down the center of the table
  
• Guards taking partial cover behind buildings
  
• Freedom House Pagoda
  

• Southern HQ and Sunken Garden - Site of 1984 battle to save Soviet defector: 2 North Koreans killed, 1 South Korean killed, 1 American wounded
  
• "Bridge of No Return" - 2 Americans killed here in 1976; we almost went to war over this.
  
• Bridge across Imjin River
  
• "Rock Drop" across highway - Primed with explosives to block North Korean advance.
  
  

• Demons guarding Pulguksa Temple ... on your left ... and ... on your right
  
• Pulguksa Temple: one of the treasures of Kyongju
  
• "Tumuli Park:" the tombs of the kings and queens of the Silla Empire. There are about 25 tombs in the park, but over a hundred more around Kyongju
  
• Mowing the lawn, the old fashioned way

• A man of tradition
  
• Ch'omsongdae Observatory, 7th century A.D.
• Entrance to Kyongju Castle, started in 101 A.D.
  
• Anapchi: the Royal Gardens
  
• Ancient Buddhist carvings
  
• The family tomb on a farmer's land
  
• The market
  
• Waiting in the shade for a train