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YangPyeong Muwang-ri Sunflower Festival (Muwang-ri 1, Jipyeong Myeon, Yangpeyong-gun, Gyeonggi-do)
I visited YangPyeong Muwang-ri Sunflower Festival(from 23rd to 24th of July) on 19th of July,
a few days ago from the festival.
If you go through the road to Yongmunsa, you can find Muwang-ri. It is more than 60 kilometers. You can visit there by using navigation, after searching Muwang-ri 1 village assembly hall.
There were few tourists in Muwang-ri due to inclement weather, so I parked my car and watched sunflower pleasantly. A beautiful sculpture was located in the entrance of village, which stands for sunflower village, showing the tourists right directions.
I visited Muwang-ri 1 village assembly hall. The brochure of sunflower festival was attached, and head of a village was doing something with residents. To help him, I wrote a direction board as “ cafeteria” for the festival.
He planned to sell Kimchi jeon or dotorimuk in the village assembly hall. He colored the sign that I had written.
He picked up the completed sign. I wished he sells a lot of food, being worthwhile to plant sunflowers.
I visited sunflower farm. As the village in a mountainous district was covered with sunflowers, tourists were surprised all of a sudden. Residents applied to the contest for sunflower village started from the military, and the village became sunflower village officially. They started to plant sunflowers, expanding the cultivation area with 35,000 pyeong this year.
When I saw sunflowers, I thought I must adjust aperture properly, rather than dispose their composition. If I adjust aperture to 2.0, everything would be out-focused except sunflowers.
But if I adjust aperture more than 11 like below, sunflowers reveal their shapes to some extent. I prefer sunflowers show up on the periphery.
If you watch sunflowers, you will realize that one of them is sticking up. One sunflower lost all of its floral leaves, and stood like a naked baby.
I thought some floral leaves were signaling in different ways. In the picture below, a sunflower looks shy. I repetitively adjusted aperture to 11 for clear background, and to 2.8 for vague background.
Sunflowers do not always smile at me. Some of them seem to become sulky. They make me come up with a lot of interesting stories. How does a mother feel with her children while watching flowers? They seem to be blessed.
I thought a person who has a flower in his or her mind is really beautiful. As Thich Nhat Hanh said, there are a lot of beautiful things like flowers all around the world.
But life is not long enough to let our body and mind be captivated by ugly things.
Gusuelgogae Braised Pollack
I visited “Gusuelgogae Braised Pollack”, which is located in Toechon-myeon in lunch time. It is almost impossible to make a reservation. Seats are always unavailable. It didn't take a long time to satisfy my curiosity; why were there a lot of visitors? The price was reasonable and the amount of food was large enough. You will be surprised when you have a bit of food!
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Gusuelgogae Braised Pollack: Gwangdong-ri 177, Toechon-myeon, Gwangju-si, Gyeonggi-do
