At the end of each term, schools all over Korea* take the teachers on a little outing.
Daepyung is no exception.
Last year, at the end of first term, my school took a trip to Ulsan for a lunch of top quality beef and had a wander around a coastal park and took a look its lighthouse. At the end of second term we stayed local and walked over to Jagalchi Fish Market.
This year, to mark the end of first term (7/20), the entire staff got back on the bus for another trip. This time to Sancheong - two and some hours to the northwest of Busan.
We had beef again for lunch.
Then after the meal was done, we took a tour around some of the sights in the area.
Our first stop was the historical location of the first place cotton was cultivated in Korea. Back in 1363, Mr. Moon hid a few cotton seeds in his pen and brought the plant to the Jirisan mountain region. Presently, there’s no cotton at this site, but a little museum marks the spot and tells visitors how the plant grows and how it was collected and processed into fabric back in the day.
Next we took a stroll around Namsa Yedam Village. Nobles used to live there and… it has a pretty wall. I’m not really sure. Everything was in Korean, and what was translated for me was only a sentence every now and then and most times it didn’t make too much sense. I offered some “Ohhh”s and “Cool”s to show that I was listening. Listening, yes. Understanding, no. So some nobles lived there and it has a wall that’s nice to look at. Good to know!
Our final stop was the Sancheong Herbal Medicine Museum. I know nothing of Eastern medicine, the use of herb or the like, so I walked around the building looking at dried plants and wood bits. I’ll have to do some reading on Wikipedia to catch up. It smelled nice though.
Once that was all done and looked out, we loaded onto the bus again to head back home and call an end to our Teachers’ Outing.
*I don't know if all of Korean schools go on a teachers' outing. I do know that most of Busan does.
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