Winter — Kimchi, Ondol, and the Art of Slowing Down
Winter in a Korean village The question people ask about Korean rural winter, when they ask it, is whether it is hard. The answer is: it depends on what you expect. Korean winters in the inland south — in valleys like the Boseong River — are cold. Temperatures drop well below zero on winter nights, sometimes for weeks at a time. Snow falls, ice forms on the streams that ran swift all summer. The fields are bare. The persimmon trees, stripped of their fruit, stand with bare branches against pale winter sky. ...