Walking into Yang Yang on our little stroll we were pleasantly surprised to find some sort of cultural festival going on with a big market around the festival grounds selling lots of junk. It was really cool to see the normally reserved Korean masses out enjoying themselves in the sun light. We even saw, gasp, kids without computers playing games, something that you don't see much of here int he land of the morning calm.
After grabbing some much needed street food, we were kind of famished after our little trek, we headed down to the festival proper and checked out the archery and tug of war competitions. Not the best festival that I have ever been to but it was a nice way to spend the day.
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1. For lunch we had these really nice corn pancakes stuffed with onions.
2. At most shooting galleries at fairs and such one wins games and toys for the little kiddies, not true however here in Korea. If you are a real dead eye Dan one can win bottles of whisky! You have to love living here sometimes.
3. For seven hundred plus years this bow was the mainstay of Korean defence, now it is regulated to archery clubs but it is still fun to see in action. This little bow fires arrows a long, and I mean a long , way.
4. The tug of war action really starts to heat up.
5. You have to love a country like Korea that takes drinking to places the rest of the world only dreams about. In Korea you can get the potent national liquor, soju, at any store, day or night, for the low price of ninety cents or so. It comes in little plastic flasks, big two liter bottles, little glass bottles, and for the kiddies, a juice box version, perfect for the lunch box. Here we see the good marketing tactics of the Jinro company at work trying to lure some young customers by dressing up as your friendly soju bottle
