추석 잘 보내세요

i'm a little late in getting this post out but saturday, october 3rd was 추석(chuseok), korean thanksgiving. there is the main day and you get the previous day and the day after to prep/celebrate. it was a short one this year with chuseok day falling on saturday, no 5 day weekend.

ancestral offerings.

stop. go.
they like to play this card game on chuseok. they are hard, thick plastic cards. like a poker chip, but rectangular and bigger. there are all kinds of different rules relating to what  things are on the cards and how you use them in combination. they like to gamble when playing, but we didn't.

went for a walk. we were trying to get to the mountain in this first photo, but didn't quite make it.

 

spiders and a bee farm. those trees were really cool with the bulbous greens.

some nice looking cattle. in the bottom one here, that's the ktx high-speed rail. it flew by about every 2-3 minutes.

from what i can tell, this is a balloon flower, except this is not the flower, but the pod that has the seeds in it. i'm not really sure why the farmers have rows of them growing, as they are not edible.

these signs talk about how the government is going to destroy this little farming community so they can build another giant apartment complex.

chickens and more agriculture.

a manure covered trailer. we stole some of the leaves off of these sesame plants, 깻잎(ggaet-eep). they are super delicious.