cerealjoe | So there were three demi-gods and they came out of the ground

Wah! I got my first fangirling session by Korean High School girls today! They're so adorable, I wish I had more than a few pieces of salmiakki with me so that I could have given them some. As I have my flight soon, I decided that today I would just plop down somewhere and read for a bit and there is no better location than the local arboretum.

Apparently the arboretum is a popular place to take high school students out for a field day because there were bus loads and bus loads of them. The craze seemed to die down after about an hour so if you're going to go there on a week-day, I would suggest going at 11am or so and not before unless you like crowds.

I'm quite used by now to random peeps just waving and saying hello to me but these high school girls actually wanted to take photos with me. A guy I met on the first day did say that he had been asked to take photos with people but at the time he was wearing on of them "all for the reds" football jerseys. So if you see some random girl with a yellow "procrastinators: leaders of tomorrow" and blond-ish hair appearing on cyworlds and me2days (Korean equivalents to blogger and twitter... of sorts), that will most likely be me.

In any case, yesterday I went to do some more of the stuff that Korean people like to do on Jeju. There is this shrine, the Samseonghyeol shine, which is made up of three holes in the ground... and demi-gods apparently somehow got out of those holes and ruled over Jeju.

The problem with this shrine is that it's basically only targetting Koreans because everything is in Korean... even in the exposition hall, which is a shame because I find Korean folklore fascinating.

Anywho, it's a great green area in the middle of the city. It costs about 1500won to get in.

Yes, I am a 12 year old at heart.

Hey, I can read/pronounce what's written... but I have yet to fully understand.

Descendents of the demi-gods hold ceremonies twice a year to remember those guys and the three pretty princesses who miraculously appeared one day! (well, not really, they arrived on a boat)