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Seoul & the DMZ 2003

In August I went to South Korea, since I had been invited to participate in a conference on peace education by APCEIU and IIPE & the Korean National Commission for Unesco. I had been there in 1991 with Christina, my wife, and Matilda, our daughter who had been adopted as an abandoned child in South Korea and came to Sweden in 1976.

During two free days - and occasionally sneaking out of the conference - I tried to breathe in the atmosphere in this dynamic and beautiful society whose history tells you about centuries of occupation and decades of division. I was very grateful to be given this chance to learn about South Korea and about this conflict - one of the world's most locked and hard. To me, the wish for re-unification was as obvious as was the brutality and absurdity of the De-Militarised Zone, DMZ, i.e. the border area between the two Koreas.

 


© 2003 Jan Oberg


Most of the them are merely tourist pictures, snapshots. I found the DMZ, including its touristic character, both absurd and surreal. It's a sad monument to the human folly and violence of an international 'community' that has not long ago decided to help the Koreans, all of them, live together.

Seoul

Independence Park

Downtown Seoul

Insa Jong quarter

Seoul subway

Seoul meditations

Seoul surfaces

Seoul people

Palace impressions

Seoul Arts Center

Seoul Arts Center Musical Fountain with kids

Musical Fountain Water Drops

Musical Fountain Lady - transformed

 

The De-Militarised Zone, DMZ

The DMZ at Panmunjom

The Joint Security Area, JSA

A border with a body language

The meeting room at the border

Peeping into North Korea

 

© 2003 Jan Oberg

 

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