Errant Owl

At the foot of the subway station stairway.

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A Visit To Gyeongdong Medicine Market

A market for old-style medicinal herbs that is, as you can tell by the sculpture representing the clay kettle traditionally used for brewing concoctions, bearing the Chinese character for "medicine"

and the ginseng (Kr. "in-sahm") painted on the pavement.

It's said to be the biggest, most famous market of its kind in the country, where you can find herbal remedies -- mostly plant parts -- leaves, barks, stems, roots, fruits, flowers, as well as fungi and animal parts (safely dried), most of which I didn't even know the names of, for just about every ill that can afflict a human being.

Deer antlers

Don't know what tree these scary things come from, but my hat is off to the first guy who thought of using them for health

Marigolds

 

Ginseng

More antlers

Yet more antlers -- along with ginseng root, these are very popular as a tonic;  when I was a kid I was weak and sickly, and I remember taking it to boost my health (they're sliced thin and simmered and filtered until they turn into a horrible tasting "tea").

And lastly, ground cherries and "domestic-sourced frog"