Seoul Hymnal

Gwahaksan

The trail up stalls at tiered embankments of tiny plastic chairs and tables with Korean vendors selling top ramen, green popsicles, makkoli, Korean pizza; the vagabond food stalls usually sprout up on flat grounds, next to the bunkers and machine gun nests marked off with wooden fences and painted swastikas. I wonder if sentries back-packed [...]

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korea_taco_bell

A duo of supine carpet haulers, snoozing in a tiny blue truck–afternoon respite and nap time on Korean Flag Day. Elderly party of seven smoke indoors above an abandoned or simply unpopular tennis court with tattered out of bounds flags and torn netting. They huddle over comforts of tobacco and bicker about the vagrant Chinese [...]

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