A Full Day in Kwangju

Today we spent most of the day at the Korean Folk Village, a 263-acre living museum of the life styles of earlier Koreans, plus a museum of international folk art, an art museum, and an amusement park. It's kind of like Colonial Williamsburg. Three Rotarians accompanied us - our main guide was Mr. Lee, seen below showing Sarah the gentleman scholar's house.
We saw silk being spun, bamboo weaving, a traditional Korean wedding, a jail, a huge array of house styles, various farm plots, and implements, and shopping. For lunch we had delicious noodles and a sort of Korea pizza (actually three).
Here's just one of the dozens of buildings we saw:

And, of course, we were invited to dress in traditional Korean clothing, then carefully posed for pictures.
We then went to the Lotte Chilsung Bottling Company. Amazing machines and systems for bottling Chilsung cider, Gatorade, Pepsi, and many other drinks. Compared to our 1917 cider press, this suggests that Tom and I have a long way to go..... Cans making the rounds below.
Beverage vats

After this we visited the Maga Museum, where we saw very impressive tapestries, screenprints, and woodblock prints by the artist Song Burn-Soo. His tapestries are huge and have remarkably illusionistic space or brilliantly colored dramatic patterns. I took some pictures, but think perhaps it wouldn't do him justice to show them here.

This morning I had an American breakfast for the first time since we started homestays and it's amazing how completely different it is from Korean breakfast. They have soup, fish, meat, tofu, rice, and several kinds of kimchee. We have bread, rolls, eggs, butter, and jam.

For dinner we had a huge bulgogi spread that Mrs. Kim spent the day preparing. There were about 20 people, us at one table, most of the Rotary men at another, and the other women at a third. Our Rotary hosts are extremely accommodating and do everything they can to show us interesting sights.