I’ve been living in South Korea for 4 years, but in the city.

Therefore we decided to spent time in very rural areas which to be honest are kind of dying here in Korea. Many shops and tourist attractions are closed.

But it’s amazing to be so close to nature.

    • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netOPEnglish
      3·
      17 天前

      Behind the house there is a garden and they grow here eggplant, chilli, 부추 (chives), cabbage, corn and sesame (we art the leafs). All good but I didn’t have any exceptional things.

  • grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world
    2·
    15 天前

    I have a few questions, and they’re all coming from a place of complete ignorance, so I apologize for that. I’ve been to South Korea twice while I was in the U.S. Army in the late '90s and early '00s.

    There were always rumors about the local population that they used human feces to fertilize their crops. Maybe that was the case back in the day, but is that even true?

    Also, while I was there, I had dog, but that was more than 20 years ago now. Do locals still eat dog? I actually kinda liked it, ngl, so no hate either way.

    Is soju still the drink of choice? That stuff was amazing!

    Again, I’m sorry for my ignorance. The Koreans that I did meet while I was there were nothing but hospitable and kind to me, and I really enjoyed my time there.

    • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netOPEnglish
      1·
      15 天前

      Never heard about the fertilizer.

      Dog meat is now technically forbidden. As far as I know, but 4 years ago there were still restaurants serving it and I also had it, but mine at least was terrible.

      Yes Soju is indeed the main drink of choice, I like to mix it into my beer which makes the lager kind of sweet.

      • grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world
        2·
        15 天前

        I’ll totally try Soju in a beer sometime, I woulda never thought of that. 감사합니다 (no idea if Google translate did that correctly, but my phonetic spelling of “kamsamida” is probably wrong too :) )

  • Maven (famous)@lemmy.zip
    2·
    16 天前

    For the last year-ish I’ve been getting really into watching weird K-Dramas. Do you have any recommendations?

    • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netOPEnglish
      2·
      16 天前

      Ah I can tell you which one me and the wife liked:

      • When live gives you tangerines
      • Our Blues
      • Mask girl
      • Replay 1988
      • Squid Game
      • Karma
    • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netOPEnglish
      2·
      17 天前

      They are closed because most young people moved to Seoul and very few people go on vacation to rural areas. The population here is very very old. First the young women move to Seoul for studies or WOR and soon the men follow because they need to find a partner. There is much more to it with the birthrates and so on.

      My favorite food is Korean Beef BBQ. A second is Korean Fried Chicken, they make it very different and exceptional.

  • Sergio@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    17 天前

    we decided to spent time in very rural areas which to be honest are kind of dying here in Korea.

    I’ve heard an opinion that it’s good for rural places to “die out” like that, because if most people live in the cities, it’s easier to mitigate the damage they do to the ecology. (when there is political will to do so, ofc…) Anyway, what’s your feeling about that, after being in that rural area? Is it better ecologically for people to be concentrated in cities?

    • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netOPEnglish
      3·
      16 天前

      For the environment it might be better, but for the people I don’t know, I always liked it much more to live in the countryside and never really liked living in cities, even though I have to now.