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 mariellaprovost@bellsouth.net

This program was made in 2006.