Haeundae

This picture was taken at Haeundae beach last Sunday. It was the first dry weekend we've had here in a month and the crowds hit this beach with a vengeance. All the yellow tubes and parasols are rentals that literally coat the entire beach in coordinated rows of corporately sponsored shade.

The news reported almost 700,000 people had visited the beach over the weekend. We arrived around 11 in the morning and had some relative space around us, but these parasols went up like trees all around us and within an hour we were surrounded.

The funny thing is that there were these guys all over the beaches selling stuff. Just about anything, but the majority of them were selling fried chicken out of a box. They love their fried chicken here. They were also selling beer, coffee, hot dogs and hamburgers (The Korean equivalent, which is disappointing if you've been a hambuger junkie for most of your life)

The same beach in January

So there are all the parents, under their parasols eating fried chicken and drinking beer. And the kids are loving life in the water and getting knocked around in the surf and dumped off their yellow tubes by their older sisters.

Where was I? Eating chicken and drinking beer on my yellow tube of course!!