After walking to HomePlus on Friday evening to buy some weekly groceries, we were walking home down a narrow sidestreet when Brian said "Oh no". Sure enough, the sound was unmistakable. The mogi man was coming. Before we could escape to another street the loud truck turned and bore down on us, spewing mosquito insecticide in a massive cloud from its back end. Mogi means mosquito in Korean and at this time of year mogi trucks can be found throughout the community, fogging neighbourhoods in an attempt to keep mosquitoes at bay. It is a custom here that children actually chase the mogi trucks, playing and laughing in the fog as they run along. Because it was evening when we encountered this particular truck, there were no children in its wake - just Brian and I holding our sleeves over our noses and trying to hold our breath for five minutes. I decided it was safer to walk to the next street but, as soon as we arrived, there was the mogi truck, coming back along the next street! This video isn't ours but I found it online and it demonstrates quite nicely what a mogi truck is like.
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So sad, Micah would be old enough to play in the Mogi Man magic smoke. Too bad we are not still in Korea.
Hope your year is going well. We have loved your last two posts.
Jim, Julie, Micah and Ellie
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