Where do I live ?

In the town of Beltsville five kilometers north of the College Park campus of the University of Maryland.

This is how my house looks on the 4th day of July every year. I came to the United States from Korea in 1954 after my high school graduation. The United States has been very nice to me. Click here for my Korean background.


I have several other photos of my house.

• Not ready yet. House under construction (1968).
• House after tree/shrub plantation (1970).
• House with short trees (1971).
• House hidden by trees (1998).
• Snow-covered house (2003).
• Snow-covered backyard (2006).

• Living room inside.
• Living room from a different angle.
• China and crystal collection.
• Recreation room.

• Who else lives in this house?
• Dinner with neighbors at a Korean restaurant (2003).

Since I am a professor at the University of Maryland, my house is about six kilometers from the City of College Park. In addition, I have the following advantages of living in Beltsville.

• Washington Area The city of Beltsville is about 20 kilometers from Washington, DC, where the president of the United States runs the world.
• Shops. There are many shops within and around the Washington area.
• I am very fortunate to live in this area.

Russian House in Kaliningrad

• Swiss Chalets, seen from the Lake Lucerne.
• Italian House in Rome's residential suburb, south of the Leonardo da Vinci Airport.
• Parlos Verdes. California houses at Parlos Verdes (south of Los Angeles), overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
  
• Chicago Suburban Houses in Skokie, not far from Chicago's O'Hara Airport.
• Russian House in Kaliningrad. This is one of the houses built by Germans before 1945 in their East Prussian city called Koenigsberg. In 1945, this city became a Russian city of Kaliningrad, and these houses were left abandoned. Recently rich Russians are buying up and remodelling them. Here is another house. Kaliningrad has been an isolated Russian naval base, but it has a very rich history.

• Yasanevo. Mammoth condo buildings at Another giant building at Yasanevo, not far from the Hotel Uskoya of the Russian Academy of Sciences. There are many more buildings like these. Yasanevo can accommodate at least one million people!

  Watergate Complex in Washington, DC, USA

• Town Houses in the Old Twon section of Warsaw, Poland. This area was completely destroyed during World War II, but was reconstructed since then.
• Condo Buildings on the east side of the Central Park (New York) seen from an 8th-floor room of the Hotel Essex House on the 59th Street (south of the Central Park). Jacqueline Kennedy lived in one of those buildings. She used to go to the Central Park often. Before Jacqueline, the Central Park was regarded as an unsafe place, and was a deserted place. These days, the Park is a very lively cultural center. Jacqueline made the change by simply going there.
• Watergate Complex in Washington, DC. Many powerful American politicians live in this complex. Among them, Condoleezza Rice is the most powerful person (as off August 2007).

  Einstein's House in Princeton

• Elizabeth Taylor, with Eddie Fisher, used to live in this house in Miami's Star Island (Florida). photo taken in January 2004.
• Margaret Mitchell's House in Atlanta, Georgia. Margaret is the author of the "Gone with the Wind."
• JFK House in Boston. John F. Kennedy was born in this house.
• Mount Vernon. Geroge Washington's House.
• Einstein's house in Princeton. He lived here until his last day in 1955.
• Bush (father)'s house in Kennebunkport (Maine). photo taken in September 2002.

  White House in Washington, DC, USA

• The White House in Washington.
• Windsor Castle about 60 km west of London. The residence of British monarchs. This house was built some years ago.
• Japanese Imperial Palace. The bridge called "Niju Bashi" (double bridge) leads to the entrance to the Palace. Before the end of World War II, every Japanese was asked to worship this bridge. Even these days, ordinary people cannot cross the bridge.
• Rhee's House in Washington. Syngman Rhee was the first president of Korea, and he lived in this house about 10 km north of the White House, at 4700 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC. Rhee returned to Korea in 1945 after the liberation of the country from Japanese occupation. While living in this house, he called himself "the life-time president of the Republic of Korea," and collected taxes or donations from Koreans living in the United States. Rhee was not popular with all Koreans, but every Korean, after seeing this house, says Rhee was a great man. This building is still in good condition.