Some pictures I took last fall:
Traditionally Koreans would hang a string of red peppers outside their house when a son was born.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Suncheon sets a world record.
Back in October at the Namdo Food Festival, organizers attempted to set a world record for the longest string of red peppers (가장 긴 고추 줄). Tomorrow, representatives from the Guinness Book of World records will make it official at Suncheon City Hall. Called "the longest pepper line of love" (세계에서 가장 긴 사랑의 고추줄), the string ended up being 1,395 meters long, and stretched along the wall surrounding Nagan Folk Village. It had 29,037 peppers; my girlfriend and I contributed one a piece. I can't imagine there was much competition in this category.
Some pictures I took last fall:
Traditionally Koreans would hang a string of red peppers outside their house when a son was born.And they would hang a dead baby if it was a girl.
Some pictures I took last fall:
Traditionally Koreans would hang a string of red peppers outside their house when a son was born.
"And they would hang a dead baby if it was a girl."
ReplyDelete!!Read this in the office and almost fell out my chair laughing. So bad!
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I shouldn't laugh at that last line, but, damn, it is pretty amusing.
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