It is fun to travel around the world and collect Coca-Cola cans from different countries.

• I was born in 1935 at a village north of the 38th parallel when Korea was one country. My family moved to Seoul in 1946 before Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union established his puppet government headed by Kim Il-Sung in 1948.

  Then the Korean War lasted from 1950 to 1953. During this period, Koreans started opening their eyes to the world. I was fortunate enough to own this shortwave radio to listen to the world.

• In 1954, I came to the United States to become a freshman at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittburgh. In 1958, I went to Princeton University for my graduate study. After completing my PhD degree there in 1961, I stayed there for one additional year as a post-doc. In 1962, I started my professional career as a faculty member at the University of Maryland near Washington, DC.

  I started taking photos in 1960, using this Canon camera.

  Click here for my camera page.

  Do you know where this building is?

• In 1983, I started travelling around the world to attend academic conferences in the world. It was exciting to see the places I used to hear about. I took many photos. I had my own camera since 1959.

• In 2007, I became an emeritus professor at the University of Maryland. This means that I do not have to teach students in classrooms. I became free to do whatever I wanted to do. Yes, I published many articles and books since then. I also travelled to places I wanted to go. I now have digital cameras. I have many photos. The problem is to compose stories by arranging those photos.

• Sergei Eisenstein was a creative Soviet-era film producer. We like to think movie makers shoot the films according to the stories written by others, like the "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy. Eisenstein had a different idea. One should take films first, and then edit those to construct a story.

  Right, we do not think of stories when we take photos while travelling. We take them out of our impulses. However, we like to convey ideas when we organize them into albums. For instance, we like to list photos having to do with music into a music page, in order to brag about my music background. I hope you would enjoy my albums.

• Web albums are quite different from the conventional book albums. When you show book albums to others, you can talk to them and explain to them orally your purpose of placing those photos at appropriate places in the album. Then they will gain a better understanding of your personality.

  In the case of web albums, you are not there to explain to the viewers. They have to find out what you intend to tell them by looking at their computer screens. This is indeed a challenging problem. I am still struggling with this new problem.

• Let us look at the world.
  1. Music places
  2. Museums

  3. New York
  4. Washington
  5. Princeton
  6. Pittsburgh
  7. New Orleans

  8. Budapest
  9. Istanbul
  10. Kiev
  11. London
  12. Minsk
  13. Rio de Janeiro
  14. Vienna

  15. Baltic
  16. China
  17. France
  18. Germany
  19. Israel
  20. Italy
  21. Poland
  22. Russia
  23. Scandinavia
  24. Spain and Portugal

• I love to tell you stories.

• My cameras.

• My photo-biography.

• How to develop digital literature?
  
  
  
• Click here, if you are not satisfied with my European pages. Rick Steves is an excellent American travel writer. He studied European history when he was in college.
  
  

How did I talk to Einstein?

1. Click here for his home page.
2. His photo-biography.
3. His Einstein page.
4. His Princeton page.
5. His Style page.

   
   I received my PhD degree from Princeton in 1961, seven years after high school graduation in 1954. This means that I did much of the ground work for the degree during my high school years.