Tag: rural korea (Page 2 of 2)

Jeongwol Daeboreum (First Full Moon)

2015/03/06 / Nic / 4 Comments

Jeongwol Daeboreum is the first full moon of the lunar new year and there are lots of traditions, customs and celebrations across Korea. In years gone by there would have more celebrations in the countryside like fires (burning the rice fields) but these days those big fire celebrations are only in bigger towns and cities and are big organised events. Nowadays local people in the area come together like this for Jeongwol Daeboreum.

I expected to just be an observer, but of course I stand out in rural Korea so they were excited to drag me into the singing and dancing. It was actually a lot of fun, but although my brother is an amazing drummer, I have no rhythm at all! This group of locals preformed like this again and again around all the small villages in this area.

Picnic Under Bridge

2014/09/06 / Nic / 3 Comments

There is supposed to be an Ask Us video today but we didn’t get to film it (still not feeling well). Instead we put together this footage from a few weeks ago when Daniel and Chloe were visiting. We went up into the mountains for a picnic, but it was raining pretty heavily. Luckily there was another option and we had our picnic under the bridge, sitting on some tables while surrounded by water. Even though we are in the middle of nowhere, there is a tent set up where an ahjumma cooks food for people and serves them drinks, so we paid just a little bit of money to use the tables and to have some food and drinks. It ended up being a very cool experience. We weren’t really planning on filming this day, which is why it’s not a proper video, but we filmed a bit just because it was so nice

Start of Summer

2014/06/22 / Nic / 2 Comments

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.

Exploring

2014/05/28 / Nic / 26 Comments

I’m a terrible singer, so just remember that as you read this comic…

Loud

2014/05/21 / Nic / 1 Comment

So loud! Too bad if there really was a problem and I was like “Oh it’s just the taekwondo kids” and then the roof caves in on me.

I put a photo on Instagram a little while ago of the kids after their lessons playing by the river.

Rural BBQ

2013/04/25 / Nic / 22 Comments

This made us laugh because she called it out so cheerfully. Mr Gwon’s parents were with us and his father took the opportunity to say, “She is my daughter-in-law!” and then pulled wedding photos from his wallet. The staff oohed and ahhed over them.

As it’s the third time I’ve been to this area of South Korea, I’m quite used to the attention and stares. Most people are just curious. We get asked if I’m American a lot so often we stop to chat and say that I’m from Hoju (Australia).

Korea Vlog 1

2013/04/24 / Nic / 23 Comments

So we haven’t done much today. We are just relaxing. Helped my husband’s parents with their farm work. I was on box making duty. They are packing up the strawberries to be taken to market.

My husband’s home town is very small and it’s mostly just old people living here. People stare at me but I’m used to it. His parents have a tiny shop at the front of their house and high school students come to buy snacks. There is a high school near by because there are a bunch of small towns in this area. But really, there is not much here in this village. But there are supermarkets one town over, which is walking distance and the city of Jinju is 20 minutes away.

We will be making small videos while we are in Korea. Our friend does most of our editing so she will edit bigger videos when we get back to Australia but we’ll just do some small vlogs like this. If there is something you’d like to see in particular, let us know.