Sun 9 Oct, Day 27/61. My sermon this morning in Seoul Anglican Cathedral. youtu.be/01ia0nOiFQQ

Fri 9 Oct 2022, Day 25/61. The Seoul Museum of Craft Art. Korea is famed for ceramics: here is a 2003 bottle by Kim Jung-ok (Sokijang, Master Potter). But what I notice most is how Koreans wrap things, often with traditional cloth, bojagi, 보자기.

Thu 8 Oct 2022, Day 24/61. The best-selling soju in South Korea, Chamisul, 참이슬, is also the world’s most consumed spirit drink.

Thu 8 Oct 2022, Day 24/61. After the meal a drink (or two) with local clergy. Soju, 소주, is usually the drink of choice, accompanied by gimchi, 김치, & other side dishes. Soju was never missing during my many late night conversations in Osan.

Thu 8 Oct 2022, Day 24/61. The Bishop of Seoul takes turns to be Archbishop with the Bishops of Daejeon & Busan. The first missionary Bishop arrived in 1890. 1965 saw the first native Korean bishop & in 1993 the Church became a province with its own Archbishop.

Thu 8 Oct 2022, Day 24/61. I met with Peter Kyeongho Lee (이 경호 베드로), Bishop of Seoul & Archbishop of Korea and talked about links between Anglicans in Kettering & Osan and the Dioceses of Peterborough & Seoul. Then he took us for a rather splendid meal.

Wed 5 Oct 2022, Day 23/61. The Museum covers Japanese occupation, the Korean War, post-war authoritarian governments, democratic reforms, the growth of Korean industry & of Korean popular culture. Here is the Hyundai Pony, the country’s first mass-produced car from 1975.

Wed 5 Oct 2022, Day 23/61. Rather to continue today’s theme, an early exhibit in the Museum shows the censorship marks made in red on a Korean newspaper, Jung-oe Ilbo, during the Japanese colonial era.

Wed 5 Oct 2022, Day 23/61. On Wednesday I visited the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History. Interesting to see the hope of Korean reunification included on this plaque from the Museum’s opening in 2012.