Onggi Featival 2013

This weekend is a big one in Korea. May 5th is Children's Day and in Korea it is a big deal. On Friday the students had a sports day at public school and then at our academy we had a games day and took students to the trampoline place or to sing karaoke or playing other games at the school. It was a fun day. The festivities run through the whole weekend and every where in town is filled with parents taking their kids out for the day.

This weekend was also Ulsan's very own Onggi Festival. Onggi is traditional Korean earthenware (pottery) that was originally used for serving and eating meals and is now used to store things such as Kimchi or soybean paste. It was a quick bus ride away and it was really beautiful. There were very many different kinds of Onggi and some were painted. The festival was huge with two museums to explore, tons of activities for kids, and even a singing competition. It was quite exciting.

After visiting the festival, my roommate and I went downtown to see the movie Iron Man 3 which was very good. It's interesting going to the movies because I often find myself reacting a few seconds either before or after the Korean audience because of the subtitles. After the movie we went out for dinner and had spaghetti and pizza. We also did a little shopping too :)