| ..tools of the farmer. This is an 'A'-frame backpack called a 'chigae'. The container, an 'ogang' was used to carry human waste. |
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..the 'yak-bang', a traditional Korean doctor's storage room for herbs. |
| A pagoda on a cliff overlooking the north branch of the Han River. It's at Shilluksa in Kyonggi Province. | 
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The eleven golden figures on the altar of a hall in Kumsansa temple in North Cholla Province. |
| This is the Miruk-saji Pagoda, a pagoda that is the one of the few remnants of what was probably a rather large Buddhist temple of the Paekche era, just outside of Kumma in North Cholla Province. The pagoda and temple were constructed around 600 and used until the 1700s. Miruk-tap was poorly reconstructed in 1915 under the auspices of the Japanese colonial government, and has since had additional repair work done in 1965 and 1980. Looking more like a building than a pagoda, it is reinforced on one side with concrete. | 
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..the number of extant stone pieces made a total reconstruction impossible. Its six tiers rise to 14 meters, but it was likely constructed with 7 to 9 tiers. |
| ..this is what Miruk-tap really looked like when it was constructed. This life-size pagoda was built just to east of the original at the temple site. | 
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| A Buddha figure standing in a field near Kumma in North Cholla. One of the 'twin Buddhas' that face each other about 100 meters away, its origin is a mystery. | 
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The west peak of the double-mountain known as Maisan in North Cholla. |