Quick video we filmed while riding our bikes around. This time of the year is really nice. Everything is so green and nice and it’s not too hot yet.
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That moment where I don’t know if he is going to scold me or go along with my dumb joke.
I think I’ve mentioned mulgwishin before, which are water ghosts, but gwishin (귀신) in general tend to usually be female ghosts wearing the white funeral clothes with long dark hair. When you become more emerged in Korean culture you start to hear the word a lot more and realise how scary they are for people. I was just saying the word “fishing” but my husband thought I had said “gwishin”. Slightly worrying because it was late in the day and where we live is perfect habitat for gwishins! We live in an old village full of old houses and abandoned falling down houses. We also live near a school. Schools feature heavily in gwishin folklore because schools are so creepy at night and are all very similar looking across Korea. If I see a school in a Korean horror movie I know that at some point I need to walk past the school here at night, so it’s probably best not to watch those types of movies.
When we cut through the school grounds I usually salute the statue of Admiral Yi (important figure in Korean history) just to be on his good side. Many schools have a statue of him and it’s said that he gets down from his pedestal and walks around the school grounds at night. We figure that if a gwishin in the school is coming after us, Admiral Yi can come save us. Of course we don’t really have a strong belief in ghosts and all that, but it’s funny how folklore can affect the little things you do day to day.
I think I was trying to ask if it was dubbed… because dubbed movies are the worst and we can’t go see a dubbed movie, but then I confused myself…
Movies in English… I don’t need subtitles! Yay!
There are many Korean movies that I want to see at the cinema but I can’t because I need English subtitles. The choice of movies in English is quite limited here so I’m always excited to go see a decent movie.
And that’s why there isn’t a proper comic. I have to work on other stuff today and because I slept later than usual I didn’t have time to make a comic.
It is always a shock to hear loud messages blasted all through the village, especially at 5am. I can’t imagine that happening in Australia because I think Australia has much stricter noise rules.
Seriously…. 5am. I’m assuming the person went and picked up their delivery of fish finally.
I did hear my mother-in-law wake up at that time and didn’t seem worried so I assumed everything was fine and it wasn’t a message saying we were all going to die.
These are all places that I ride my bike around regularly. Although I have discovered a lot of stuff, I never knew I could go into these historical houses. I always assumed they were private property. Now I’ve realised that I can if I want to! I usually ride around by myself but when my husband can be persuaded to join me, he does have a lot of fun too.
The old tree is said to cry the night before someone dies… which is kinda creepy! The countryside looks so pretty now, it’s such a change from how desolate it looked during winter. It’s quite nice down by the river now, but as I mentioned in the previous blog post, I’m not allowed to go swimming there.
We also managed to briefly film 2 cranes in the rice field. It’s quite cool to see a pair like that because they mate for life.
Hope you guys enjoyed that video. Let us know if there is something in particular you would like to see in the Korean countryside.
Good thing it’s not a video game! It’s just real life……….oh..
Actually we don’t have windows like this in Australia so I couldn’t see that it had to be twisted several times and then pulled out to unlock the window. That’s the thing about moving to another country, even little things like this can be confusing.
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