Showing posts with label Korean food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Korean food. Show all posts

Friday, 28 October 2016

Goodbye Korea

The pictures end abruptly after Yongsan market. The Korea I visited was very urbanised and sometimes I wasn't motivated to take pictures. Perhaps if I liked architecture and design more; they seem to be good at that. There is a country Korea which I only had a glimpse of in Seoraksan and Jeonju. But it's hard for me to access that without more knowledge of the Korean language and culture. A lot of travel information on the Internet is in Korean as domestic tourism dwarfs foreign tourism. And it's a populous and crowded country.

I found the Koreans very polite and helpful. It's a very co-operative society. I liked some of the food. I found Korean flavours strong, but many dishes I felt had too much sauce of some kind or other.

It's a mountainous country and if I visit again, I would try to see more of the landscape. I was particularly taken by the pristine landscape in the 2003 film Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter … and Spring which is a Buddhist moral tale.