This week marks the halfway point in my 10 month stay in Korea! I came here in August of 2025 and will be here until June of 2026.
Annyeonghaseyo! I’m Margaret, a Korean adoptee and landscape architect on a Fulbright year in South Korea, creating drawings of the DMZ to share its hidden stories with others.

This week marks the halfway point in my 10 month stay in Korea! I came here in August of 2025 and will be here until June of 2026.

Learning jeong in Korea, I discovered that peace is practiced slowly — through small acts, shared meals and everyday moments rather than through big ideas.

This post explores Korean food as an expression of care, history and place, showing how rice-centered meals, banchan, and kimchi, connect food-preservation, the environment and communal eating.

This album features photos from Jeju Island, a subtropical island south of the Korean Peninsula known for its tangerines, tradition of haenyeo women divers and coastal landscapes.