Our next trip

Tomorrow we will move upon the 38th parallel, a line which cuts through the middle of the Korean peninsula. Here, after two hours of travel, we will find the DMZ. Also known as the Demilitarized Zone, the DMZ separates the Northern Democratic People's Republic of Korea from the Republic of Korea in the south. Further inside the DMZ lies the Military Demarcation Line, the exact borders on the day of a ceasefire between two nations in 1953.

Fifty-seven years later, with the Koreas still technically at war, we will travel to see the tightest border known to man. While there will be no such venture towards the MDL, I hope our trip takes us even mildly inside the DMZ. And we will be equipped with cameras, both video and stillframe.

Because we wouldn't be good journalists, or tourists, without.

~Dave

The soft streets of Buldang-dong

Half of a mile from our apartment, and four stories up, resides a row of classrooms inhabited by rows of desks, a whiteboard and a PC.

Sometimes, there are the eager sounds of Korean students wanting to learn. But mostly, it's just the sound of Korean students eager to whine.

Either way, existence in Buldang-dong, a neighborhood in Cheonan, South Korea is a peaceful one.  As evident here...