Making Rice Cakes

A traditional Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving) treat. Another kind of "dokk" that isn't filled (unlike the colored kind). We got free samples. They'd just smashed it all together to make it doughy (as in the previous two pics), and then they put a kind of soy bean powder (I think) on it. I ate it warm and delicious! (By the way, all these people in traditional dress are all re-enactors of sorts... most Korean people don't dress like that these days ;-))

One More Day of Vacationing

October 7th 2006
And, lest you think my Chuseok holiday vacationing was over after Busan, I will set the record straight. Indeed, I traveled to Gyeongju, Andong, and Busan, then back to Yeosu, but the fun didn't stop there. The Saturday of my return (the 7th), I was swept away to Nagan Folk Village by some friends of a woman with whom I volunteer at Sam Hye Won orphanage (teaching English to elementary kids). I ... read more

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Korea was an independent kingdom under Chinese suzerainty for most of the past millennium. Following its victory in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Japan occupied Korea; five years later it formally annexed the entire peninsula. After World War II, a... ... read more

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