Sunday, April 15, 2007







Down by the River


So unlike the rest of Asia, people in Korea are active. This activity can be best viewed on a weekend (read Sunday as most people work on Saturdays) down by the river. People are biking and roller blading, and maybe even doing a little urban camping. There is a fabulous path and along the path there are exercise machines. That's right, public exercise machines. A nice man named Mr. Kim (coincidentally 23% of people in Korea are Mr./Mrs. Kim) showed us how they all work one day. I think that I wrote about Mr. Kim before. Anyway, there are also places along the river to play games, like bocce ball or baseball or kicking volleyball. I don't really know what kicking volleyball is actually called, but it is played like volleyball except that you can't use your hands like soccer (or football if you are from any country other than the US). This game is played all over Asia. I don't think that I would be very good at it...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Rach,

1) I love these photos, especially of the one with the rollerblading kid and his parents. Are there seriously people who pitch tents in the city? Are they homeless?

2) I want to come and visit you! I don't think we would be able to save up the money before you left, but it looks like fun over there.

3) No pressure, but you need to learn to cook Korean food before we will welcome you back into our lives.

--Em