Cool. From KBS:
The thorned lotus, an endangered plant species, has been discovered for the first time at the bottom of a waterfall in Shinan County, South Jeolla Province, which is known to never dry out.
According to the county, a local resident discovered dozens of thorned lotus flowers with leaves more than one meter in diameter. The flowers were discovered in a pool located behind Bigeum Elementary School.
I don't know what "is known to never dry out" means either, but Shinan is one of three Jeollanam-do counties comprised entirely of islands, Wando and Jindo being the others.
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"known to never dry out" - I think many rivers are boom and bust in Korea - in the rainy season, they fill their banks but in dry seasons, a 100 metre wide riverbed might hold only a trickle a few metres wide and only centimetres deep - such is the case with the river in Yangyang, Gangwon Province and, I think, in Masan, that I have seen. I have no trouble imagining such rivers drying out once a decade or so.
Ah, I see. Thanks for the tip.
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