Daegu

admin — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 05:29:20 +0000

So I made it to Daegu, South Korea’s textile metropolis with only 2.5 Million inhabitants but five universities. The city is also known very well for its traditional Korean medicine. It has the oldest traditional medicine market of South Korea. My host Colombe from France takes me to a street with plenty of ceramic shops. We stroll through one of those shops. I really like the little tea pots but with 160.000 Won (140 AUD, 141 CAD, 88 GBP, 179 NZD, 135.68 USD) for one pot it’s simply not in my budget. Still the owner is very friendly, and explains to us everything about South Korean tea. He lets us know that he regularly organizes tea festivals and plays on his traditional Korean flute for us.

Colombe works as a French teacher for Alliance Française. She’s lived and worked in

too many countries already :) France of course, Canada, China and now in South Korea. She admits that she is a bit disappointed in South Korea. I find her accent very charming. “And you know what’s the worse thing about this country?“ she asks me, “They ate my cat!”

I am shocked. I thought they just do this in china.

After a while Colombe realizes that she should correct her typical French pronunciation.

“Non non, I mean they H-ate my cat!” Well, I’d say in such a situation only alcohol helps I guess:

Daegu from dusk till dawn von Daaaaaaaaaaaax

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