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My photography in Korea kept me busy whenever I could carry my camera, which wasn’t always, but enough , so I obtained some fairly good portraits, still-lives, cityscapes, landscapes, etc. When I worked for Yonhap (1984-85),  at 85-1, Susongdong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, there were also special events I covered, like Yi Do-Sun’s wedding to Ms. Lee. The chapel was so crowded that day, I had to stand in the vestibule, but I did get some wedding and related shots, including a nice view of Ms. Lee’s mom walking in a stairway there, clad in her special hanbok. I believe I also took some good shots of a little boy on a bus that day.

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    I do know I did a whole series of photos of a little girl on a bus around that time, too. I took about 30 shots of her and her mom. David Johns may have been sitting next to me that day. I published my best view of that little Korean girl in one of the groupbooks I’ve directed, with her wearing a pearl or beaded necklace.

    One day, I photographed a Buddhist nun — or maybe she was a female Buddhist priest.. My best view of her is a head-and-shoulders close-up, as she looked into my camera in a courtyard. If memory serves, that courtyard was in the vicinity of the hall where the Yis were married. A month or two after their wedding, the Yis invited the Yonhap International Department staff to their home, and treated us to bulgogi, and many, many other good foods that day.

    I also photographed Bi-Won Palace, as my bus drove by it, perhaps on my way to work at Yonhap then. I photographed a number of palaces around that time, including the former Emperor’s Palace, Kyung-Bok, where the National Museum was housed in 1984-85. I photographed David Johns in the courtyard of that museum, right after he first arrived in Seoul, and inside the museum, too, as he signed autographs for some Korean cub scouts.