Friends from Mongolia

• Mongolian Ladies. Mongolians are ethnically different from Chinese, as Koreans are. I met these ladies at the Chatley metro interchange in Paris. This photo shows that Koreans came to Korea from Mongolia some years ago. These ladies knew that I am a Korean from my appearance. We exchanged pleasant talks until their metro train came (July 2000).

• In Washington, DC (2007). There are also many Mongolians in the United States. This Mongolian lady not only looks likg a Korean but also speaks Korean fluently. Amazing!
  1. In Virginia. near Washington, Mongolian student working at a Korean restaurant. She looks like and talks like a Korean. She has been to Korea.
  2. Mongolian lady working at a Korean restaurant near the White House.

• Mongolian Lady I met in London (March 2004). She looks exactly like a Korean lady. She can even speak and write Korean. I have a sister looking like her.
  
  1. London, at one of the Aberdeen Steak House (2009). with her Colleague. They are travel professionals in Mongolia, and are spending one year in London for practical training.
  2. Another Mongolian lady in London (2012). She is in charge of the breakfast program at the Olympia House Hotel in London. She speaks Korean fluently. She worked hard there while her husband was working toward an advanced degree in London. They went back to Mongolia after her husband completed his program. He is playing an important role in his country.

• In the Coloseum of Rome, I met these two Mongolian ladies (2012). They were also happy to meet a Korean man. They look like Koreas.
  1. Mongolian familiy at the Berlin Tegel Airport (2013).
  2. AeroMongolia ladies. I met these Mongolian ladies at the lobby of the Artotel near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on January 3 of 2016. Since Koreans share the same ethnic root with Mongolians (different from Chinese), I feel close to them, and they have the same feeling toward me. I like to see them again.

Australian Friends

• Australian Sisters. I met these Australian sisters at a restaurants on the Vorosmarty Square in Budapest (2003). One of them is working in London, and the other came from Sydney to visit her sister.

• Milan 2002. I knew the La Scala Opera Theatre was being refurbished, but I went there to prove myself to be a music-loving person. I met there an Australian lady who came for the same purpose. We had a photo together.

• Australian Lady in Paris. She was looking for the graves of the persons important to her at the Montparnasse Cemetry in Paris. I was looking for Henri Poincare's grave (April 2012).
  1. Another Australian Lady at the top of the Arch of Triumph in Paris (January 2012).
  2. Australian Mother and Daughters in Antibes overlooking the Picasso Museum at Chatau Grimaldi (France 2006). Can you tell who the mother is?
  3. Another set of Australians in Athens (Greece 2008).

  4. Three generations of Austrian ladies. I met them in the Capital Hotel (Beijing 2013). They were travelling around the world. They were telling me the exciting experience they had in Havana (Cuba).
  5. Two Australian senior citizens. They came to New Orleans while touring in the United States (2016). I am also a senior citizen. Thus a good combination. This photo was taken on the Mississipi river boat called Creole Queen

• Quantas Australian Airlines. Australians become very happy in London. This photo was produced the Holiday Inn Kensington Forum (June 2009).
  1. I had a photo with them.
  2. Here is another photo.
  Austrailians routinely complain that Londoners do not speak English well whenever they come to London.

Friends from India

• Indian Sisters on a cruise boat in Miami (January 2004). They are both computer professionals. The younger sister (next to me) lives in Miami, and the elder sister came to Miami from Bombay to visit her younger sister.
• with Bindu Bambah, in Naples (Italy, May 1999). She is an outstanding physicist.
• Another Indian Lady. I met this lady at Washington's Potomac Park during the cherry blossom season (April 2006). It was a real pleasure to talk with her. She seems to have talents in many different areas. We promised to meet again.
• Three Indian ladies at the Cathedral Square in Cologne (Germany 2014).
• Indian students at the United Nations in New York (2011). They came from the rainy Assam area of India.
• Indian folk dancer at an Indian gathering at the University of Maryland (October 2015), plus her friend.
• Two Indian ladies in their Halloween hairstyles (Fairfax, Virginia 2015).
• Indian mother and daughter in Seville (Spain 2019). The daughter was nice enough to let her mother have a photo with me alone.

Vietnamese Friends

• Vietnamese professor in Paris. I met her while attending a conference in Paris (2000). She was very happy to explain to me her research results. She was kind enough to spend one day with me after the conference. She came to my hotel with her car, and drove around the city. We visited many interesting places.
  1. At the end of the tour, we had a dinner at the Grand Cafe Capucines near the Paris Opera House.
  2. We had a photo there with a gentleman who served our table.
  3. She is a well-established professor in Paris, but she was in Hanoi during the Vietman war which lasted for ten years from 1965 to 1975. We had many things to talk about, sine I was in Korea during the Korean war (1950-53).

• with a Vietnamese lady at a seafood restaurant overlooking the Bay in San Francisco (March 2014). We had another photo witha Danish lady who was also dining at the restaurant.

Malaysian Friends

• Two Malaysian Engineers. I met at the ICCE Conference held in Shanghai (July 2011). They are excellent scientists representing their country. four of them.
• Three Malaysian students in Venice (2014). They are studying in London and came to Venice for vacation.
• Malaysian students in Zurich (Switzerland 2014).
• Two Malaysian friends in Berlin (December 31, 2015).

• Two Malaysian sisters in Seoul their mother (2017).

Friends from the Philippines

• Independence Day of the Philippines. I met these two Philipino ladies at a drinking room in Copenhagen's Marriott Hotel where I stayed in 2002. They told me they were making preparations for the celebration of their country's independence day on the 12th day of June. They then invited me to the celebration. At that time, I was going to Sweden for a conference and was going to come back to Copenhagen a week later. I thus accepted their invitation, and went to the party.
  1. Imelda Marcos. I met this lady at a party celebrating the independence of the Philippines on June 12 (2002) in Copenhagen. She is wearing her traditional Maria Clara dress, which is commonly known as the Imelda Marcos dress these days.

• Two philipino sisters at the Claude Monet Garden in Giverny (France 2014). This photo looks like Monet's painting.
• Two philipino ladies I met at the Horiuji Temple in Nara (Japan 2014).

• Philipino lady at the breakfast room of the New York Palace Hotel (2014). She was with her friend from Romania.
• Philipino lady at St. Peter's Square in Rome (December 2015). She is working in Saudi Arabia and had many Korean friends there.
• Two Philipino ladies at a shooping district of Busan, Korea (2017).

Friends from Central Asia

• Iraida: with Dr. Iraida Kim of Moscow State University. She is a research professor at MSU's Sternberg Astronomical Institute. She is very popular among Korean astronomers. We were waiting on the bank of the Moscow River for a cruise boat. It was a hot day. One hour before, we were on the MSU campus which is at the top of the cliff about 100 meters high. We walked down the cliff. Iraida was born in Kazakhstan.

• Immigrant from Kazakhstan. I met this young lady at a night club called "Odessa" at Brighton Beach (New York 2002). She came from a Korean community in Almaty (Kazakhstan) recently, and she was so happy to meet a Korean man in the United States that her first reaction was to embrace him. She got her "green card" by lottery. How about money? She said Koreans in Kazakhstan are very rich. Here is another photo.
• Dancers from Kazakhstan. They are descendents of those Koreans who were forced to go there by Stalin in 1937. They were dancing in a Korean church near Baltimore in 1997. Here, they are performing a traditional Korean dance.
• Dmitriy Pak: a gentleman from Tashkent. This photo was taken in 1997 when we were on a sight-seeing boat on the Bosporus Strait in Turkey which separates Asia and Europe. Prof. Pak is, regarded as the best physicist in Tashkent, is spending two years in Korea (1999-2000).
• This Korean girl came from Kazakhstan, and works at one of the most expensive restaurants in Kharkov. She wants to make money for a better future.

• Financial Analysts from Kazakhstan. I met them in Vienna (October 2007). They were attending a workshop on banking. There are people who trace the flow of oil in their country, but the country needs those who can trace the flow of money.
• Students from Almaty studying at American University in Washington, DC (January 2008).
• Students from Kazakhstan returning home after spending the summer months in the United States in September of 2014. I met them at London's Heathrow Airport.

• Two Sisters from Tashkent. Tashkent is the capital city of Uzbeckistan, which used to be one of the Soviet Republics in the past. There are many people from Tashkent throughout Russia. This frame contains two photos taken in Kazan (1999).
• Tashkent Lady, married to a rich man of Korean origin. He drives an Audi (German-made car). This photo was taken when I was visiting Minsk in 1994.
• Lady from Kazakhstan working in Kaliningrad (2005).

• Two ladies from Kazakhstan at a Georgian restaurant in Sopot (nr. Gdansk), Poland (2015).
• Students from Kazakhstan returning home after spending the summer months in the United States in September of 2014. I met them at London's Heathrow Airport.

• Two Sisters from Saratov. I met these young Russian ladies of Korean origin while I was in Saint Petersburg (August 2003). In the background is a statue of Alexander Pushkin. They were visiting Catherine's Palace with their Russian classmates. I was indeed pleased to hear perfect English spoken by these sisters. It appears that their parents, who are conscious of the atrocity Joseph Stalin committed to their own parents or grandparents in 1936, are determined to send their daughters to the United States.
• Here is another photo.

• Victor Kim: I met Victor Kim when I was the Soviet Union in 1990, and he has been one of my closest friends since then. His grandparents came to Kazakhstan from the Vladivostok area in 1934. He is now one of the most active physicists in Russia and visited Korea several times. This photo was taken when I was attending the first International Sakharov Conference held in Moscow (1991). Victor Kim is in red shirt. We were at a Korean restaurant called "Ojak-kyo" near Moscow's Convention Center. Victor Kim works at the Nuclear Research Institute in St.Petersburg and visits the Fermilab (near Chicago) very often. He visited Korea several times.
  
  1. In 1992, I met him again in Moscow for the Shakarov Memorial Conference held in Moscow.
  2. In Minsk (1994), we met again.

• Yebgeniy Yen is a Russian student of Korean origin, with the same background as that of Victor Kim. He was doing high-energy experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in U.S.A. As of August 2003, he was a graduate student in high-energy physics at the University of Wuppertal in Germany. He told me he likes this webpage very much. He therefore deserves to be on this page.

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