Special Delivery: In the previous drawing, I depicted three warriors ("musa") taking The Baby to safer lands. Here, a new trio is finishing the trip.

Nong ("chest"): I am going to draw more Asian men. The man on the left is NOT supposed to be me (someone already asked). He is wearing a suit made out of wooden panels from a Corean stacking chest (a "nong"), complete with hinge plates, a central lock plate, and mother-of-pearl inlaid designs on such chests from the Chosun Dynasty (1392-1910). In color, his wooden-plated suit would be red - the red lacquered chests were only allowed for royalty until the end of the Chosun, after which time the only remaining chests were recovered from out of the country (Chosun and her relics were destroyed during The Occupation).

The baby over his shoulder is modelled after my nearly 6-month old, Sun Su. (Yeah the baby looks funny, but it's only my second baby drawing. Plus babies are supposed to look funny.) I have a picture of my Sun Su with his fists up like that. COREA TEAM HWITING! (Fighting.) Baby sits in a spiked baby-backpack. In the mouth, like how tigers or crocodiles carry their young. That's a stork on Nong's T-shirt.

The girl with the taeguk on her palm (sort of like a yin-yang symbol) wears my updated version of a hanbok (shoulderless and waistless) with traditional symbols and characters. The design on the front is taken from a painting of a bodhisattva seated on a six-tusked elephant (an earth form of the Sakyamuni Buddha). Only I added a little baby in his First Year Hanbok atop the lotus-footed elephant. Trios were popular in Buddhist paintings. It was said the Buddha himself had distinguishing marks on his palms and soles as well.

Red Devil: The girl on the right is all about modern Corean pride. The Red Devils were a massive voluntary organization of fans of the Corean soccer team and of the Corean spirit itself. There was even an effort during the 2002 World Cup to publicize the C-spelling of Corea globally, on signs and shirts. She sports a popular Corean cartoon, named "Garu", on her hat (a girl named Pucca is always trying to kiss Garu). The furry trim coat is a K-pop trend. Her belt is actually "my belt" that I bought in Corea. She uses a bat because guns are illegal in Corea and in the world of my drawings as well. Bats and sushi knives are the preferred gangster negotiation tools.

The tattoo on her belly varies. The top two characters say "Mi," meaning "beauty and grace." When she's wearing fashionably lower cut pants though, the second syllable becomes visible, spelling out the word "Michuh," meaning "f***ing crazy and not in any good way." This would explain the finger bones hanging from her visor.

Hanging along the right wall are Hahoe masks, from left to right, Old Woman, The Winker, and The Learned Man. The last two were often used to ward off evil in local government offices. Probably a good place for cameras and security measures too.

The figurines in the far background are statues of my own characters. The largest is Medea Sin, next to her would be Emma Raj, and next to her is a mysterious hapa character, wearing a half-mask. Next to him is a little guardian statue.

Welcome to my world.