We Meet Seoul
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008, 9:10 PM
I had braced myself for Seoul with warnings like this one from our guidebook: You have to accept Seoul for what it is… “an inoffensive, grey urban landscape that borders on the bland.”
But in our first day here, I’ve already been wowed, from an open-air music festival, which included a celebration of the hot pepper, of course; fruit stands filled with the concord grapes that are in season now; cyclists on the city’s bike path running along the River Han; a totally efficient, if a bit overwhelming labyrinth, metro; and the dozens of BBQ restaurants that line the pedestrian streets surrounding our hotel.
Mostly, though, I’ve already been struck by how much we’ve learned about how consumer, labor, and farmers movements here are working to bring to life a sustainable food system.
Fruit on the Street in Seoul
(all pics by Jessica Walker Beaumont)
