My eco-hippy cousin took me to Buan (In Jeollado province) for an ecology camp.

The area as been the center of nuclear power and wetland management controversy but none of that was going  on while we were there so we mostly just toured the area. It wasn't as fun as when we went to Younggwang and did actively propagandized the neighborhood two years ago, but it was still worthwhile.

We bumped into my cousin's friend (who is a month younger than me) Jaehoon Kim on the bus going down there. He's doing his obligatory military duty and is off for a four-day break and was headed down to the eco-camp too. He didn't have any clothes besides his fatigues, since he was coming straight off of the base.

On the bus ride there:

Building cities from scratch.

Rice paddies as far as the eye can see

High-speed railroad of the future meets low-yield agriculture of the past

Buan:

friends ...

... not food

My SNU-educated hopelessly-idealistic eco-hippy cousin Seo Bum Seok

Save the wetlands

"For a nuclear-free world" (read: keep your shit off my back yard)

Korea gazebo

"Of course I wore my uniform down here! I haven't even gone home yet!"
(read: stop degrading my worth as a tree hugger)

... after hours of dressing down.

None of us could figure out why this bunker faces away from the river. All of the other ones I've seen in Korea have faced the water, presumably to help ward off North Korea commandos. This one would seem to aid the enemy.

An interesting choice of places to stop to smoke and chat.