Boo Yeo city was a last Capital of Baek Jae dynasty (B.C 18 - AD 660) in Korean Peninsular. I have traveled several times in these area. There are plenty of stories which you would like to hear. There were so much sad stories in Boo Yeo city when Baek Jae dynasty was destroyed by Shilla(korea)-Tang(china) combined forces. Let me post the history of Boo Yeo city next time.
I arrived at Boo Yeo city at noon.
It was little bit hot.
The reason why I visited Boo Yeo was looking around Garlic market place.
As you know, Garlic is essential in Korean Cuisine.
Koreans love Garlic.
You could see Garlic in every restaurant.
Especially when cooking the meat, Garlic is inevitable.
Even they will serve you raw Garlic in restaurant when you order the meat.
Love for Garlic of Korean is never fewer than that of Italians or Mexicans.
Anyway there were Garlics in the market place.
I heard that the scale of the marketplace was getting smaller day by day. They told me that it was much more bigger in several years ago.
There were no young people in the marketplace. When these old people quit this job, who would do this work ?
How long can I see this marketplace ?
One oldwoman was cleaning her place.
It seemed she sold out some Garlic.
There was dried red pepper.
Red pepper is as important as Garlic.
Red pepper and Garlic are going always together.
In Korean old myth, a bear and a tiger wanted to become Human. So they prayed to the Heaven God. The Heaven God told them if they ate only red pepper and garlic in the cave for 100 days, they became Human.
The tiger gave up in several days, but the bear fulfilled mission.
Finally, the bear became woman. This woman get married the son of the Heaven God. This was told as an origin of Korean.
It was lazy sunday noon.
Some people was napping.
It seemed that the napping in the marketplace was delicious.
Husband was napping, wife was working.
An old woman was napping, too.
She was selling fishes.
I bought 2 bunch of Garlic.
An old woman told me that the Garlic I bought was autumn Garlic and
Autumn Garlic was much more delicious than Spring Garlic.
I took a photo for her. There were deep wrinkles in her face.
The deep wrinkles seemed to tell me that her life was not so easy.
She must’ve overcame all difficulties in her life.
It seemed that she never kneed down to her destiny.
She looks virtuous.
After buying the Garlic, I went to the restaurant where my colleague recomended.