the celluloid traveler

The Celluloid Traveler: In Search of The Host on the Han River

24 January, 2012

The Han River splits the city of Seoul neatly in two. North of the river lies the city’s past: huge, stately palaces; winding neighborhoods full...

29 July, 2011

For most visitors to Korea, Miryang is just another stop on the train line between Seoul and Busan. It also happens to be the setting...

22 April, 2011

Shimonoseki is not the first place most people visit in Japan. Nor, truth be told, is it the 5th or 6th, or even 10th. A...

5 March, 2011

There are many reasons to travel: to get away from day to day reality, to explore new places and meet new people, to be taken...

1 January, 2012

I wasn’t sure whether I would be writing these greetings from home or an airport. As many of you know, I spent most of December...