One of the amazing things about Korea is observing how things that are thoroughly modern and high-tech abut traditional ways of living. As an example, while driving to Buyeo on Thursday, we passed many fields where hay and rice were being harvested. There were big round bales of hay in some fields, and square bales in others (just like you'd see in Ontario); but in the majority of fields, there were hand-cut and tied sheaves of hay grouped together in bunches, drying in the sun. On one small side road, we stopped to observe this couple at work; the woman was using an old-fashioned sickle, and both the man and his wife were piling up hay in preparation for bundling.
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