Friday 19th - hike, confused poets,

After a good nights sleep I went for a morning hike. The trail up the mountain was steep. In 25 minutes I had climbed 200 m, for a view across the ridge. It was a nice view, when I found some stones that created a hole in the treecover.
Two partridges hurried away from staying close to the trail as I approached them.

After breakfast the new clubs came to fetch us.

The drive from Boeun to Ok Cheong was beautiful. It reminded me of the drive Tarja and I made in Steirmark in 1988 and drives in western Switzerland around Gstaad and Gruyere in 1994.

The first event for the day was a visit to a Poet's memorial hall. It was very confusing and reminded of "Lost in translation", but it seems the poet has gone missing in North Korea in 1950. His son was found in North Korea in 2001, he is believed to have passed away in 2002 or 2004.
Kristjan later researched and found this informative article on him in a blogg.
http://www.daily-korean-stuff.com/2011/05/korean-poetry-jeong-ji-yong.html.

Next we went to the birthplace of Yook Young-su (Ex-president Park Chung-Hee's wife) , a clearly wealthy family's house with plenty of rooms for servents and many rooms with kalligraphy sets or needle work kits. It was one of the first sights with an english leaflets, most have been in korean only, some with english headlines.

Lunch was again delicious, it's amazing how there is always some new dish that we have never had before! The diversity is such that among the 20 or so dishes something is always new.

As we had wanted to see a farm we were taken to a "fruit tree plantation garden". There were blueberries, black chokeberries, grapes and many others.

We continued to City hall were we got to discuss about the tourism state of the city. Ok Cheon is situated right on the Seoul-Busan highway and the people of the city were very approachable.

Next we were taken to a Local recreation hall with gym, massage chairs, music instruments for a band and a large sporthall with tabletennis practice equipment as well as tables.

As the local health station was next door and we had some time. We were taken to have a look. We had time to take weight and height measurements for all that wanted. Kristjan said he has lost around 10 kgwhile in Korea with the healthy food and the exercise... For myself the measurements were in line with my expectations after feasting.

Before dinner we took a short ride around a reservoir to get some great pictures of cherryblossom and mountains.