If that isn't the best video you've seen all month, then clearly you're unqualified. I went to Jindo on Saturday, met Kelsey from Living Life Frame by Frame, wandered through town a little bit, then took a cab ride along the scenic route to Gagye Beach. Unfortunately it was too cold for my tastes, and there wasn't much going on that day. When we found a program we learned that most of the events, including the full walk, were actually scheduled for Sunday. I didn't stick around, and went back to Gwangju
On the big island a few hours before people could walk to the small one.
Unloading lanterns.
Straw crafts.
Old women enjoying themselves as visitors learn to play the Jindo Arirang.
People walking along the rocks as the tide goes out. The women in the second picture are collecting seaweed.
Cute Jindo puppies.
Here's a dog chained to the stage and fixed to a wagon, for some reason.
Jindo puppies shivering in the cold. They were selling for 500,000 won each.
Standing on Gagye Beach, looking out toward Haenam county.
If anyone else attended the festival, feel free to leave links to your galleries in the comments section. I'm still a little bothered that I made a combined four-and-a-half hour bus ride to Jindo to find that the festivities wouldn't take place until the next day, but, hey, at least next year people will be better informed.
6 comments:
It's really too bad that you left - the weather really improved after you left, and the road was open longer than that one guy had implied. Ah well, next year.
I've started to post some videos from the event.
Also, the puppies were 5mil won, not 500,000.
Also - that video is hilarious. It was seriously one of the weirdest things I've seen in Korea.
I would not buy a puppy off the street like that. There are simply too many unscrupulous breeders who hawk expensive dogs that have been produced through questionable means from questionable parents, often leading to dogs (or cats, as in my ex's case) with questionable health problems.
Even if it's only a small percentage (5% or 10%, though it could be higher), it's too much of a crap shoot to be paying that much for an animal. Even if it's cheaper, the veterinarian bills you might get saddled with could be quite high.
Kushibo - those dogs in particular were being sold by the Jindo Center, and as such are prime specimens, actually. They weren't being sold for 500,000won, they were being sold for 5 MILLION won.
Okay, Kelsey, that would make me quite a bit less skeptical, but before I put down the price of a small car on a dog, I would look into the Chindo Center's own pedigree verification process, including having a native Korean speaker with better language skills than I look into Korean-language media about the veracity of their health claims, pedigree claims, and guarantees.
Kushibo:
It's run by the government. More info is here: http://tour.jindo.go.kr/siaio/siTour/view_tour_CultureTable_english.php?GPM_str_cultureID=362
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