So Spring has officially sprung in Seoul! After a period of serious doubt that warmer
temps would ever arrive, Seoul has started to bloom in earnest. (The grass still has a ways to go...)
This time of year in Korea is marked by a country-wide explosion of cherry blossoms. Looking at these flowers is a popular Spring pastime, and people flock to areas that boast large numbers of them.
In Yoido-dong, the neighborhood of the city where Cook’s
offices are, there are many such trees and several parks.
At lunchtime, office workers, retirees, parents with young children, and tourists walk, picnic, and
generally revel in the beauty of the trees and the warmth of the air. On the weekends, tens of thousands of people converge on this neighborhood to enjoy a week-long cherry-blossom festival.
I took
most of these pictures in Yoido park, which is a two minute walk from the Cook
office. An increasingly green little island in a sea
of buildings.
Until next time,
Weaver
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