Above: Signing at Kyobo, Seoul's biggest bookstore.

At right: Every aisle looks like this!

Q & A with students at Osan Elementary in Seoul...

...after an introduction by their principal. (At left, KBS-TV records my every move.)

Outside the Blue House--Korea's White House--after meeting First Lady

Mrs. Lee Hee-Ho. From left, the editor of WomanSense magazine (like Redbook

or McCall's, who is writing an article on the meeting); me; my interpreter Michelle

Kim; and Sanghee Lee, the editor of the Korean edition of A Single Shard.

At the DMZ--the demilitarized zone between

North and South Korea. This photo was taken

from a window in the conference room. The work-

men, supervised by a U.S. soldier, are repairing the

border--a seventeen-inch-wide concrete strip.

The one-hole golf course at the DMZ. At the bottom, the

lettering cautions golfers not to retrieve balls from the rough

due to live mine fields.

A Buddhist temple in the Kyungju region (southeast Korea). The

building is the entrance to a grotto which contains a giant granite

statue of Buddha. Dating from the 9th century, it is beautifully

preserved.

 

Adding a stone to the 'wish pile' outside the

temple.