Accidentally Crashing Neighborhood Party In DAEJEON
Oh. It's the village Festival. Oh, the the community? Wow, wow, looks good. Oh, nice shot.
So this is a new one for me. This thing, a little bit of padding at the bottom. Yeah, that's an Ikea bag. That's an Ikea bag, cost me about three bucks.
wow no way and i take it anywhere i need to go on the plane or the train or whatever how much is a Brompton Brompton bag? like 200 bucks, 250 bucks or something like that A lot more expensive. So this is the recommended rton travel bag. It fits perfectly, like a glove. There you go, now it's ready to go, now we're done. And you check that at the airport like that? I check it exactly like that. They put a fragile tag on it, and it comes out as good as it when it, yeah.
All right, so the, the time has come. It's time to say goodbye to Macho Man. His Korea tour is almost over, or it is over. The bag's packed, packed up, ready to go. I guess the thing to do here at Daejeon station is, uh, take your picture here. Yeah, boom.
Oh yeah, Macho Man, signing off. Good morning from a beautiful, absolutely beautiful day here in Daejeon. This is what I've been waiting for. Nick T left a couple days ago, and it just kind of sucks.
The last few days he was here, we just had really, really bad weather. How you doing? I'm wet, I'm wet, uh, yeah man, this is the coldest and wettest days of the tour so far. That was horrible.
Yeah, that was pretty rough, man. No shoulder going uphill, passing by car. Yeah, car is going right, right next to you. The day he leaves, literally the next day, we get blue skies, cool weather. I mean it's just finally feels like fall is here. And I spent a couple nights in the jjimjilbang catching up on work, and doing some, uh, doing some of those things. And then I was making my way back to the middle of town, and I passed over this bridge right here, and I noticed a ton of people underneath this, uh, not underneath the bridge but on the side under these little canopies here, chowing down on something.
And so I stopped and, uh, you know, had to do a little bit of investigating. And so, uh, I might have to bust out the translator. Is it okay for anybody to eat? Oh me, yeah, uh, how much is it over, over here? Okay, all right, so we have a, a menu right here.
Okay, so I think, but this is just for all this stuff, like the little bitty shrimpies here, uh, some of the red stuff, uh, I'm not really sure what that is. But let's, uh, let's come over here and see what we can. Okay, okay, here we go. Now we got some, now we're getting somewhere. Wow, they got a lot of good food up here, I think. That's good.
Oh, that's Deageon (food), right? Okay, where do I pay? Wow, wow, looks good, smells good. Okay, okay. So maybe, bibimbap, japchae. okay, where do I pay? Over there, over there.
always got a babysit the foreigner. Just me. Is that, is that a lot of food? Oh, uh, is that too much food for one person? Yeah, okay, okay. So I just want maybe bibimbap Thank you Oh no, no, no, no, no. I got money, it's okay. Okay, get, okay, come.
I think there's a little miscommunication there. She thought maybe I wanted all this. Then I asked them if it was too much food for one person. They're like yeah, you should probably, you probably should that much. She brought it out anyways. Okay, me. This is, uh, going to set me right for the day, that's for sure. Pretty, pretty hungry. I was going to go to
the really famous bakery that is here. I still might do that, but first let's do this Oh yeah, oh yeah. Hey, yes, you know? Okay, okay, good, good, it's okay.
Put the soup, okay. Then I got this big pancake right here too, look at that. Wow, little kimchi pancake, kimchi. All right, I got a lot of food here. I got a lot of food. Really doughy little bit of crunch in there from the veggies. Try this japchae, look at that. Good. Okay, the best. Yeah, that is very tasty.
That is good. Doesn't look like it have a lot of flavor, but it does. Damn, those noodles are really good. What a beautiful day. They is so nice outside. Feel sorry for Nick T yes that's me Yeah, yeah.
What is today's event or celebration? You know, what is, what is this? The event, the celebration, like what, what are we, why is everybody here? What festival? Autumn, the Autumn? Okay, okay, simple, Autumn festival? Okay. Oh, it's the village Festival. Oh, the, the community? I see, I see So pretty much everyone is, lives here? Okay, well thank you for letting me come.
My, uh, my lovely new friends here to my left there, let me try some of the pork blood sausage. Good. It's not bad, yeah. I mean the name sounds terrible, but it's actually pretty good. Okay, all right, so this is a new one for me.
This is the fried ginseng, right? Fried ginseng, okay. And basically just a root. I just, I saw him just rip it off and eat it with his fingers, so that's what I'm going to do Oh, really soft, like a potato almost Yeah, I thought it'd be crunchy, but no, kind of soft That's good. All I want. to be so full He keeps bringing plates over and keeps coming over, one, one. I'm like man, I'm done I'm done, so nice.
I'm stuffed So good, so good. A wonderful way to start the day. Beautiful weather, good food, nice people. thank you, thank you. Some great hospitality. All right, let's get on out of here.
Yeah, I was just crossing over this beautiful, this beautifully decorated bridge right here with all these flowers, and I look over to my right, and I'm like o, what's going on going over there? Glad I stopped. Oh, what a nice day. All right, plan is to go to the bakery. That was the original plan until I did this,
and so let's, we'll still go check it out. And, uh, maybe get one roll. I'm pretty stuffed actually after all that food, but got to stop by, apparently it's the place to be, the Daejeong Joongang market. So the station is right on the other side of that market, and, uh, this is where Nick T left from. And so I, I've explored a little bit around this area.
You can definitely tell this is kind of the old part of town, buildings are a lot older. Um, it's just, it has that feel. Yeah, it's definitely the old, old town. Still nice though, nice little pathways down here, nice bridges. And, uh, yeah, this is where that bakery is, and so let's go check it out All right, this is it, Sungsimdang Let's go see what the big deal is all about. I'm not that hungry. It's a mad house in there. That is crazy. Bread looks really good, but, nah (too many people!)
Hello. I'm not sure if, uh, you know, you don't see a lot of tents, I'm sure something's going on over here, maybe, maybe a guy has his little setup right there. But traveling all over Korea, I haven't really seen a lot of tent cities like you do in America. It is crazy in America right now. Go down that rabbit hole of, uh,
watching tent cities in America, (on YouTube) richest country in the world, and, uh, we have people living in tents in just about every big city. It's crazy. Keep saying it, what a beautiful day. And I had to get out of a long sleeve. I had my pants on, put shoes on for the first time in a long, long time, and I was like man, what, still too hot.
You know when that sun's out, feels good shining on you, you warm up pretty quickly. So I had to get, had to get my breathable clothes on again. What a day Ain't that beautiful? Look at that, look at all those sunflowers, wow, all facing this direction.
Man, sorry Nick T, it's a beautiful day. Oh man. And kind of wrapping up the Korea tour. Got about a week, week and a half left, I think. It's coming to an end, it's kind of sad. Going to spend about a week in Seoul, and then, uh, go back to Texas for a couple months. So got to enjoy it while I can. These guys are having a good day sitting by the river fishing.
Not a bad way to spend the day so Oh, nice shot. Beautiful. Nice look that they have a little Park Golf right in the middle of the city like this, and it's nice.
It's in between the trees. It's not just flat, kind of have to deal with all the obstacles. That's pretty cool. Another win for Korea Clank. And, uh, trying to make my way out of the city. There's one, one last spot I want to go check out, and I think it's up here.
So this is a new one for me. Traveling throughout Korea, you see a lot of 6.25 Korean War memorials and monuments. Um, you see in Jeju, I saw 4.3, for the 4.3 incident. And so, I mean, you, you see a lot of like 38 for the 38th parallel. But when I was coming into the other day with Nick T, we came across this one, and this is the 38 Memorial, uh, commemorating the, the student Uprising that eventually ousted the very first president here in South Korea.
I mentioned this in one of my previous videos, you know, learning about South Korea, I was kind of surprised to, to learn that they also had like a dictatorship like, authoritarian presidents who, uh, who ruled (South) Korea. And so apparently the first president, Syngman Rhee, he was one of those figures. What I do know about him, I've learned from the books and the, the videos that I've watched, that he was basically put in place by the United States. He was not the United States first choice, uh, it's interesting, uh, man, Reed, they say he spoke better English than he did Korean when he came back to Korea after Japan surrendered, and, uh, Korea was liberated. And so it's a guy that spent most of his life in the United States actually, and not in Korea. And so it's another thing that's kind of interesting, you know, like even in North Korea, Kim Il Sung, he left Korea when he was 12 years old and went to live in, I think, uh, Manchuria, and spent a lot of time in Russia.
And so the first two leaders of North and South Korea have spent much of their adult life, if not most of their entire lives, outside of the Korean peninsula. And so I just found that kind of interesting as well. But this is a statue, I guess commemorating the, the student uprising that eventually ousted the first president.
Apparently there was a lot of corruption, and a lot of scandals, and a lot of things like that, that, uh, obviously led to that. So I'll take a, I'll show you the, the, the, the inscription over here, and you can read it for yourselves. Looks like nowadays it's used for skateboarders to come and, and grind on the, uh, on the stone here. But this is what it says here Cool. Let me just read it for you real quick.
It says, "The March 8 Democratic Uprising was a pioneering student movement in which high school students in Daejeon protested against the dictatorship with their, with their bare hands from March 8th to 10th 1960. "This movement, which cried out for freedom and justice until the throats burst against the Iron Fist of the Armed Forces in order to recover the Civil Rights taken away by corruption, injustice, illegality, oppression, and tyranny, was the Civic Spirit of the Chungcheong people that led to the April 19th Revolution and the expression of the awakened National Spirit. "The earnest will to promote and pass down this proud spirit for a long time is engraved here on a precious stone of Life. "The blue cheers that surged out of the pure academy and into the streets were a living soul that sought the dignity of the nation to testify to, to being the sacred torch of the altar of democracy. "How could we forget that hot flame of sovereignty? Now our righteous history will blossom more easily and cultivate March more brilliantly with colors of lofty hope. July 2006."
Interesting, interesting. Haven't seen anything mentioned about 3.8 anywhere else in the country
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