Today marks the beginning of Chuseok, the annual holiday erroneously referred to by locals as "Korean Thanksgiving". The holiday is a time when people visit their families and to pay tribute at the tombs of their ancestors. The only thing American Thanksgiving has in common with Chuseok is massive domestic travel.
I've been content to stay in Seoul for the past several Chuseok holidays. Whereas I've heard that a decade ago most everything was closed, I find plenty of businesses open despite the deflated city. Seoul becomes peaceful for several days thanks to drastically reduced traffic and the near absense of the automobile horn chorus.
But this yeat things are different. I'm hopping on a plane tomorrow morning with Una and we're heading to Koh Samui, Thailand for a week.
Ah, the picture above...One component of Chuseok is gift giving. King of the heap is the SPAM Gift Set; who wouldn't want to receive $80 of the stuff?
Well, where are the love photos?
I used to live in Hawaii where spam is treated with proper respect as the other white meat. Elsewhere in the US they disrespect it and I don't know why I guess they never tryed it on whole wheat with raw onions and mayonaise.
This will give me another reason to visit Seoul Korea if anybody wants to get rid of excess spam send me a email.
Thanks in Advance
I remember my Chuesok spam gift box. At first I wasn't sure what to do with the stuff. Eat it? Feed the dog with it? Drop it fifteen stories and watch a meat explosion? I ended up falling in love with it. I think I like it best when it's fried. It almost tastes like bacon...