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Uni-Park, the dormitory we stay at.
The caterer delivers breakfast every morning to our dormitory.
Since it was not raining, we ate breakfast outside.
We were supposed to visit the Park Building site to draw more sketches, but it started to rain very hard, so we gathered in the dormitory instead.
First we displayed our sketches that we have been drawing for the past few days on the ground and discussed them. Second, we wrote whatever keywords which came up in our heads when we thought about Jeju, ocean and the Park site. Third we drew more sketches with those keywords in mind.
One of the many "circle meetings" we have at our dorm.
Discussing each other's drawings.
More drawing...
For lunch we had lots of seafood at a restaurant by the ocean. Shrimps, crabs, fish, and all kinds of vegetables were cooked in the red chili pepper soup. As usual, we had a dozen of small dishes to go with this main dish, but I liked Dom Bae (the Jeju original sliced white pork) the best.
The slice pork on the rectangular plate is Dom Bae.
After lunch, we went back to the dormitory and made an enlarged version of the site map. It was the first time we used the drawing board, as well as rulers and a tape measure.
In the afternoon, we went to probably the ‘darkest’ park we have ever visited in Jeju: the Jeju April 3 Peace Park. This park educates the visitors of the Jeju April 3rd Incident, which created the second most casualties in the Korean history following the Korean War.
Between the period from 1947 to 1954, the military and police forces used violent tactics to suppress widespread civil-uprising after the police shot six Jeju residents to death (more information on http://jeju43.jeju.go.kr). The atmosphere, items displayed, photos and explanations made me feel like my body had weighed ten times as much. However, I could only absorb about half of the exhibition due to the time constraint we had. I would love to go back there and fully appreciate the park.
The Jeju April 3 Peace Park
Tormented faces of the victims
The military police found the villagers hiding in the cave, so they threw hand grenades and made fire at the opening to suffocate the villagers. The photo is the recreation of the cave.
In front of the Berlin Wall. Most of the time I feel "missing out" when I take pictures because I am not in them, but here I was far from being in the mood to smile. So I am glad I was the one behind the camera.For dinner we had Chinese food, but according to the Chinese students, this was not authentic Chinese food. Like anything else when the food travels to different countries, it was “indigenized” to Korean style. We had fried dumplings, what-looked-like sweet and sour pork, fried rice, soy sauce dipped noodle, and of course, Kimchi.
At night we went out to downtown to experience some night-life in Jeju. What surprised me the most was the number of restaurants present in the city. There were MANY, and I mean EVERYWHERE. They really substantiated the importance of food in Koreans’ lives. And I have been enjoying the rich, volumeful meals Korea and Jeju have to offer every single day since I got here.
In Jeju city
Parteey. And that is our fourth meal of the day!Tomo
