The Daegu Herb Medicine Market has been operating for three hundred and fifty years. It is a truly an international market as visitors here will find medicines and merchants from countries such as China, Manchuria, Russia, and Europe.This herb medicine festival displays medicinal herbs that are found in Korea’s mountains and visitors can experience a wide range of relaxing and curative traditional Oriental medicinal procedures. The Daegu Yangyeongsi Herb Me...

Sunday morning I left the hostel and walked over to the Jongmyo Shrine about 20 mins away. Today was the main event that I came for this weekend. The Jongmyo Daeje ceremony is held once a year on the first Sunday in May. It is to honour the spirits of the dead kings.The ceremony dates back several centuries to the Joseon Dynasty but was banned during the Japanese occupation. In recent years they have restarted the annual ritual. Here is a good summary, click the ...

The first time I arrived in Seoul Sept during Chuseuk week it was in the middle of a torrential downpour. All the streets were flooded, I couldnt walk, and had to wade over ankle high to a taxi as the only means of transport. This time I kept checking the forecast for my arrival on Saturday and it kept saying heavy rain again, anywhere from 12mm to 20mm. I had the same string of bad luck whenever I went to Ottawa in the middle of an all day downpour.I decided to ...

This weekend five of us took the bus down to Busan Gwangalli Beach for their Fishermans Festival. The forecast kept predicting heavy rain for the weekend, but fortunately that moved to Friday so Saturday was perfectly clear and sunny. This was my first trip back to Busan since I came for four days in Febuary. I thought the bus ticket was $7, which is what it said on the website, but at the terminal they charged us $9!.In Busan we got a Metro Day pass for $3 and h...

Wednesdays I have no classes after 11am, so after lunch I was sitting in the teachers room killing time on the internet. The Vice Principal had somebody ask me if I wanted to goto 'the conference' at mount palgong. I didnt know what she was talking about and told the person translating I didnt know anything about it. She asked if I was doing anything this evening and that I could go.I asked my teacher when it was, how long and who was going? He said all the teach...