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    Harabeoji and Halmeoni in Boon

    Photos from South Korea

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    Medusa into the Mountain. A grandma gathers her cuttings in a bundle and crowns it to her head while she wears her rubber boots in her left hand and her sun visor in her right hand as she balances her way up the incline. Enervated from the scorching heat, she verbalizes the weariness she feels which is ironic of the energetic voice emerging in full force from the core of her diaphragm so that one could hear even meters away. Retirement is a word that rolls down the mountains and glides through the valleys without resting on any of the toiling bodies ripened by laboring the land. (Namwon, South Korea) Views[384] Going Solo on a Sunday. In urban areas, weekdays are for Seoulites to dance to the tune of long hours in offices and businesses where eleven o’clock in the evening still manifests rush hour commute. Weekends are reserved for other obligations like how most spent this Sunday with family. This grandpa spent his with religion. (Seoul, South Korea) Views[361] Respite in the Street. From early morning to late in the evening, this grandma reaches over to serve, skewers fish cakes, rolls mochi, washes cups, keeps the boilers and fryers fired up and filled with comfort food cooking, all in about 60square feet of cosmic rhythm with passersby combating the cold weather. (Gimhae, South Korea) Views[334] Cumbersome Cucumbers for All Comers. Meticulously arranged sliced cucumbers are sun dried on the terrace of a Buddhist temple’s dining hall with a capacity of more than a hundred. Each mealtime, a mix of all ages –juveniles undergoing reformation, travelers experiencing culture, locals seeking solace, martial arts aficionados—converge to enjoy all-vegetable dishes lovingly prepared by the likes of this grandma. (Gyeongju, South Korea) Views[446] Harbinger of Hegemony. Unmindful of her weather-torn skin even just as the sun has risen, this grandma (like other members –most of whom are aged more than 60 y.o.--of the dying breed of haenyo or literally translated as sea women and can hold their breath for a long time without scuba apparatus) takes a moment on the coast to unload and inspect her find before diving back and toughing it out again and again in the freezing waters and other likely perilous encounters brought by jellyfish or even sharks--among many others--in order to gather baskets full of bounty with promises that by doing so she is paving the way for especially her female descendants’ opportunities for less harsher conditions. (Jeju, South Korea) Views[885]
     

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