Download - korean scenes
Scenes of Korea
In memory of
Rev. Raymond Provost
Missionary to Korea 1948-1965
Part of the old city wall
around Seoul
One of the ancient
city gates
Kyongju
The ancient capital of Korea 57 B.C. – 936 A.D.
See some of the many historical sites
Visit the Kyongju Museum
The Famous Emillie Bell
Queen Son-dok’s
Astronomical
Observatory
Built in the 7th Century
Parvillion on Lake Anap
Ice Storehouse for Half Moon Fortress Built during the reign of King Chi Jung
500-514 A.D.
Tomb Park in Kyongju City
Walkway to
visit the tombs
During the 1st-4th
century, more than
20 kings, queens, and
high officials were
buried in this park.
Some of the relics found inside
the tomb.
Posok-jong
This is the site where
King Kyong-Sun, the
last king of the Silla
Dynasty, was slain in
936 A.D.
This stone channel
was used to flow
cups of wine during
the royal banquets
The tomb of General Kim, Yu-shin
who unified Korea in 668
Pulguk-sa Buddhist Country Temple
Located10 miles from Kyongju
These guards
are found in
the entrance
gate
Lovely path from gate to temple
Famous steps going up to the courtyard
In the courtyard there are
several famous pagodas
Taeung-jon (The Grand Hall) Tabo-t’ap
A Gold Buddha
Sokkuram before enclosed by glass
Picture taken around 1958
This famous
Buddha in the
Sokkuram was
carved during
the 8th century.
A large stone Buddha
Turtles signified long
Life. Many are found
in the Kyongju area
Buddhist priests A Pagoda
At Hae-In Sa (temple) 80,000 carved wooden
tablets can be seen. These Buddhist
Scriptures were carved in the 13th century.
Rice Planting
Spring
Plowing Weeding
Man bringing water up to the next level
Transplanting seedlings
Lunch break for the farmers
Summer is so beautiful and green
in Korea.
There is so much work to do for
the farmers in the fall.
Rice drying in the field
Carrying the rice from the field Notice a small boy is helping.
Thrashing the rice
By
gasoline drum
By hand
Weighing
rice bags
Grinding the
grain
Rice is ready to sell in the market
By late fall the country looks brown
Woman’s work is never done!
Grandmothers care
for the grandchildren
while the mothers
work elsewhere,
Washing
A woman takes
her laundry to
a stream to wash
How did they get
their white clothes
so clean in this
dirty water?
Women had to
work very hard
in those days
Women ironing their clothes
Rice was cooked early in the morning
A typical country kitchen
Carrying pine needles home to start the fire.
Food was kept in these earthern jars
Preparing kimchi in the fall
Women often
had to work in
the markets.
Koreans love
red peppers
Women and children gather on the
porch to visit and keep warm.
Sweeping the
leaves in the
courtyard
Notice the
handmade
broom
Men stay busy too.
Father and son Man plowing his cabbage
plowing the barley field field with his ox
A man working in his yard
The men’s backs are very strong
The pony cart
An ox cart on a narrow road
Men mixing cement to build a house
The Korean Jigae or “A” frame
Putting on a new roof.
Preparing the straw for the new roof
Putting a new roof
Pictures of children
Korean Markets
Men waiting to be hired
Along the Korean
coastline are many
fishing villages
Children following American family
Korea is a very mountainous country
Korea has changed very much since 1950
but God’s beautiful sunsets are the same.
This power point presentation has been
prepared by Mariella Provost, Raymond’s
wife, in order to share the many slides he
took while they were in Korea
as missionaries from 1948-1965.
Raymond first went to Korea
as a soldier in 1945. In 1948
he returned to Korea to teach
at Yonhee College (now Yonsei
University.)
This Moran medal was
presented to Rev. Provost
in 1982 by the president of
Korea for his missionary
work.
Raymond is buried behind Moon
Hwa Middle School in Kyongju
He loved Korea and its people very
much, especially the students.
One of Raymond’s favorite verses--
“For God so loved the world He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him may not perish but have eternal life.”
John 3:16
Mariella Talmage Provost was born in
Kwangju of missionary parents. She received
her nursing education in Virginia and
returned to Korea to work at Jesus Hospital in
Chunju. She married Raymond in 1952 and
together they returned to work in the
Taegu/Kyongju area. Raymond died in 1997.
Mariella is now 83 years old and lives in North
Carolina.
For further information
you may contact her at [email protected]
This program was made in 2006.