Exotic KOREAN FOOD! Finding More Foods I Haven't Tried Before
It's pretty epic looking statue, isn't it? Dramatic, dramatic, huh? Wow, and they have kinmokuse in the park. I can smell it, I can smell it. Smells so good. Oh, there they are over there. Uh, had to stop by.
Here we are at the 518 Memorial Park. I mentioned this in one of my earlier videos. But when I was learning up on uh Korean history, one of the most surprising things that I learned was that South Korea also had to deal with dictators and people who wanted to rule the country as an autocrat and uh kind of rule with an iron Fist. And so it wasn't until 1980 March 18th when there was an uprising here and Gwangju that kind of took South Korea in a different path and a different trajectory. and let South Korea to a more open and free democracy one that it enjoys today the third president the one that caused all this Uprising here in Gwangju, he ended up changing the Constitution and making it where he could essentially rule indefinitely in South Korea.
And so towards the end there in like 1979, uh they established martial law which students were banned from going to school, um I mean a lot of things were banned here, free speech and whatnot. And so there was the uprising here, and this is the uh the city that kind of uh led the way to South Korea becoming the free and more open democracy that it is today. And so I mean you, you know just uh two seconds ago on the corner over there, there was a a lady over there with their sign yelling and shouting whatever she wanted to say. And now in South Korea they have a constitution that protects free speech and things like that. And so you go to the National war memorial and Seoul and pretty much every weekend you'll see somebody, a group out there protesting and doing something out there speaking their mind and uh getting whatever point across they want out to for people to to uh to hear. And so it wasn't always like that, you know you look at Korea today and if you don't know that kind of stuff. And especially with North Korea just right
on the other side, one of the most suppressed and uh you know it's North Korea, they have the uh it's the most isolated country on the in the world and uh there people there have zero rights. And so uh it's easy to think that South Korea has always been like this. And let's go check out this real quick, looks like it goes anything down there. Yeah, so maybe the victims from the 10 day Revolt here that. [Applause] I was looking at videos online, I mean it wasn't that long ago, it was it was a 1980. And so still uh very much fresh on the minds of many many people here in Korea.
Wow, smells so good here, let me go show you what they look like again. I love these oh my gosh smells so good, so when I lived in Japan for 11 years, nine of those years were in Gunma right outside my bedroom window, I had a huge kinmoksei tree, it was in my neighbor's yard, but every year it would it was huge, it would blossom and bloom, and the scent would just come into my house every day.And it was you know it's fall, it's it's Autumn, the air feels light, it feels good, you have the windows open, and this is just very nostalgic for me. They're almost done, unfortunately they're about to fall off, see all you have to do is barely touch them and they they come off.
Alrighty, it's a beautiful day here in Gwangju, we're just going to get back on the bike course and keep heading kind of North Northeast. And then we're going to go to the dam today, and then from there that's where the bike course ends, we're going to have to shoot through the mountains a little bit, maybe do a climb either do that tomorrow or at the end of the day, but we'll see how we feel, it's only like 40 km to the dam, we should be able to hit that today. But after yesterday's 100 km day we're moving a little slow today. just like every Big City in uh Korea it's pretty hard to get out or it's pretty difficult cycling through the city, a lot of traffic, sometimes you find yourself in places like this, and uh just got to walk the bike down, luckily there's a a ramp right here. make work for it, that's what's tough about the city, they make you work for for a lot of traffic. But luckily here in Gwangju, it looks like it's
pretty flat, Seoul, Deagu Busan they're so hilly, this does not look too bad, let me show you yeah it's obviously a very very very slight incline, but not too bad, we got this is this bike yep did it we did it. All right give me one second woo we made it to the bike horse something yeah right lovely. Come on put one in play, Let's see it nice oh can the short stop get it oh bad bad throw bad throw a little wild there everybody laughing at him. Oh yeah yeah okay now that's a plane, I saw that uh that remote control plane up there and I was thinking go surely nobody's like flying that. Thought maybe it was there was a pilot in there, it's like it's just wobbling up and down. But no it's it's a it's an RC, they're out here flying it, but from a distance it almost looks like a real plane.
Okay looks like they're having some trouble Landing it here, they keep looping back and forth yeah. Okay expensive like over $10,000. $10,000 wow what is average uh average is uh uh 1,000 about a thousand all right, six points. Wow crazy from a distance it almost looks like a real plane, we thought it was a real Yeah we actually did, we're like I don't want to be in one of those it looks really wobbly and you you know flying all over the place. But and then you see this one you're like it's not that small no it's it's actually it's pretty good size. Beautiful lovely man, we just have a great day today, there's really not much else to say, yesterday was really windy, we were fighting all day yesterday, but we were huffing it.
And uh today nice and chill, beautiful little Pond here people out fishing oh this is nice, got the mountains off in the background, blue sky, what more could you ask for. So this is fun we just rolled into a small little town here, wasn't really expecting much any. And uh looks like we just rolled up on a little market here, up here they're selling ducks and chickens and all kinds of stuff that I haven't really seen much of in Korea, it reminds me of the southeast Asia thing right here.
Like right over here we got some swans some chickens on. Wow nice we have our little look like we have a little Farmers Market here, you get some apples some pear some persimmons cooking up some fried stuff over here, of course fried stuff always smells good some chestnuts onions. Some grains those look interesting might have to get ourselves some no more fried chicken that's for sure look at this. these fish have seen better days. yeah these aren't righted out the ocean for sure all different kinds of herbs spinach Rosemary ready to take home and mhm pork that's a lot that's That's Heavy how much is this one uh 25 yeah this one eighty I see okay bean sprouts. hey your time it's your turn man want to try one. got a they have some all the seafood out here too you wouldn't think so yeah doesn't look that fresh no and it's not even like on Ice. a little bit ice in there. some orang how much? how much um M man Manu so 10,000 I think yeah that's um that's kind of what they were on Jeju as well yeah maybe oh [Music] I don't know what you said here yeah I got 10 it's four you'll probably eat more don't worry about it yeah I'm definitely going to eat more than you yeah you TR down like business yeah I love these things grapes are expensive M baby crabs yeah crab and that crunchy tasty it is very tasty yeah did you make it? no Mom your mama made it mom so many different varieties travel we're traveling by bicycle what do you think that is? not fin is it could be a fin it looks like a fin it looks like a fin think it's a shark fin I don't know do you know what this is very unexpected surprise here another Market there looks like it I mean this this little town is bustling what are we filming up here.
Man this might be one of the most beautiful stretches I've been on on this entire trip not even kidding it's are really nice out here you sure that's the real one yeah yeah okay 100% that one's not wobbling up there swaying back and forth yeah okay still though I wouldn't be comfortable in it the damyang airport people out here driving some really nice cars of Rolls Royce woo look at that now these are some real planes single propeller. All right we have made it to the very end apparently there's a dam up here I'll the dam is still one kilometer away but I guess this is the uh kind of the checkpoint area then uh from here woohoo all the way up from here we get it work it work it's been beautiful out here though it's really nice. That's pretty cool welcome to damyang Ho what a sight this route from Gwangju has just been amazing smoking a Siggy [ __ ] got to got to [ __ ] climb a mountain mate let's [ __ ] go. this is beautiful man this is stunning gorgeous throw in any word there nice and windy road better than Jeju better than Jeju yeah seriously it is yeah I know beautiful. it's made from um the broken pots from the soybeans. Wow all right where are we going we going right going right. oh man wow oh man we just came from down there yep got a work for that one mhm we out here got a nice bridge over the river right here one of the places I have saved come check out wow there's a walking path that goes all the way around too you see that I don't think we want to do that though n nuh n Save the energy for the bike save the energy for the uh the hill that we're about to climb man this could be a good place to call it a night too man. there's a lot of
stuff built up out here isn't there yeah look like a rentals maybe uh-huh. [Applause] that's pretty fun little Bike Shop different bike though. losing sunlight but that's okay we have almost made it to the top of uh the big hill the summit and then we have like a little bowl or up High pretty for a while and then it's all downhill. But I think we're going to try to find a place somewhere inside the bowl camp out maybe do a campfire or something would be nice.
Man it says climbing lane end good. cause I'm tired of climbing. man, my thighs are burning oh man got some wobbly noodly legs right now that's for sure we made it so these oranges have been kind of Hit or Miss first one I had good not that good yeah not that impressive the second one had even less flavor although I think we got a bad Bunch. but I've had a few good ones didn't realize you took the camera there a good one nice and sweet got some sourness to it lot of chili growing up here [ __ ] I don't think this place is open no God damn it God damn it oh that looks so good though not definitely not well on to the next one there's a yeah yeah they're playing some music for us let's go uh maybe see if they're open over here okay. All right we found a place that's open I think the only thing that's open what do they got here? so we're going to do the duck mushroom bulgogi. hopefully there's not too many mushrooms
I can't do mushrooms I can't do a whole lot of them at least that's interesting I have no idea is it hot M what is this, soup. okay pumpkin I think it might be yeah that's squash. you are soaked yeah that hill killed him. killed me too I'm pretty prettyy sweaty too but going downhill is uh get cold really quickly so hot soup is going to be so good we won't know until I upload this video what do you think carrot or pumpkin? I'm going with carrot carrot pumpkin car andin okay can I see can I [Music] and 12 14 different side dishes wow definitely a first. Okay okay so we got small mini soup right here too so we got two soups this is just crazy right now Nick walked across the street to the supermarket or to the small grocery store and supermarkets here but just go check it out and uh maybe got a few things i' like to camp high up tonight and not go back into town but we'll see nice look at that exactly what we need mhm look at that we got a mini one too amazing oh my how was the uh the grocery store it's open till 10 p.m. right man we've done this before hot hot hot okay nice oh you can have the tea here.
So I mean we have some lettuce and some some of that bean paste and things like that just like you know as if we' be eating some Korean barbecue but I'm not sure how we're supposed to use it maybe just grab the duck and wrap it up wrap it up guess I'm going to go go for ity turn man mhm turn that's good little fishies in there wow okay what a man off good ide two out of 10 two out of 10(joke) that was pretty good that was an amazing man that was exactly what we needed. what is the name of this place? just in case you're wondering is what? There's not much signage. over here I think is good oh number one number one all right so plan now is just to get some things to snack on for tonight. get a sixpack. Nick got some squid yeah we're full we stuff hopefully find a place uh we do a campfire, fingers crossed but all right gra some beer you see any beer? boom do a soju or no? we're in Korea man we're in Korea one I guess we're in Korea a lot of white dogs out here okay we were uh just told by the shopkeeper there he goes tomorrow rain and so we're like oh crap we should probably pay attention to that and sure enough it's supposed to start raining in the middle of the night so we'll uh hopefully find a place that has some cover if not maybe we'll just go all the way into this town I'd like to spend a night out in nature and I camp out here but we'll see we'll see I also don't want to cycle in the dark because we'd miss all the beautiful sights anything to add that's about it that's about it get on the road let's do it. [Music] it's like a fun little town doesn't it wow. it was real nice so we decided to come just down into Jeonju
because it's going to rain tomorrow wow how we looking pretty good fancy it's nice yeah right ain't bad not for 25 bucks it's not right at all no man $25 big screen TV nice silky robes for us look at that oh yeah look at the big screen TV the desk right how big are the towels huh Korean size same as the last one yeah what's up with that no big towels no big towels in Korea country oh we got a bathtub yeah it's one of those kind of hotels that's why well I don't know if you had a room like this and you brought your uh your loved one back you wouldn't want to sleep in separate beds right? maybe you would I don't know. yeah it's just a budget Hotel
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