{"id":965,"date":"2016-08-19T16:03:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T16:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sofagoesabroad.wordpress.com\/?p=965"},"modified":"2016-11-26T15:50:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T15:50:33","slug":"koreanische-kirschblutenzeit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sofagoesabroad.de\/en\/koreanische-kirschblutenzeit\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherry blossoms galore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part 2 of my “journey back in time” to Seoul: Nature.<\/span><\/p>\n

For one week in April, all of Korea seems to be in a sort of state of emergency – in the most positive sense. Daily trips to famous landmarks, thousands of photo shoots, and a million social media posts. Japan is known for them\u00a0world wide, but in Korea they are also an important part of culture: cherry blossoms. For about one week, trees blossom all over the country to create a beautiful natural spectacle – even on campus. Seoul is transformed into a spring wonderland more or less over night that can only be marvelled at. At the same time, this week forms a sort of transition to summer.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Towards the end of this cherry blossom week I took a day trip to\u00a0Namwon<\/a> (\ub0a8\uc6d0) with some friends. The city is about 250km South of Seoul and is known in Korea as the “city of love”. We were told that it is one of the most beautiful places in the country to experience the cherry blossoms, but unfortunately we were a bit late since most trees had already stopped blooming. Since Namwon is so much further South than Seoul and since it gets warmer there a bit earlier in spring, we didn’t think to take into account the fact that the cherry blossom week would start (and therefore end) earlier than in Seoul. Still, we were able to enjoy the last cherry blossoms at a few places in the city.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, one interesting curiosity came to my attention several times\u00a0during this\u00a0week: I was told repeatedly by Korean friends that the German city of Bonn was known all over Korea for its stunning cherry blossoms<\/a>, and that many Koreans plan their trips to Germany or Europe accordingly so that they are able to witness them first hand. And again we realize that we live in a place where others go for on vacation. #traveldestinationgermany<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Uferpromenade <\/a>
Uferpromenade in Namwon \/\/ Riverwalk in Namwon <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Beleuchtete <\/a>
Beleuchtete Kirschbl\u00fcten \/\/ Illuminated cherry blossoms in Seoul <\/div> <\/div>
\"Namwon\" <\/a>
Namwon <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Das <\/a>
Das Kirschbl\u00fctenfest am Han Fluss \/\/ The cherry blossom festival by the Han RIver <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Ausflug <\/a>
Ausflug mit der deutsch-koreanischen Tandemgrupp zum Kirschbl\u00fctenfest \/\/ Field trip with the Korean-German tandem group to the cherry blossom festival <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Kirschbl\u00fcten <\/a>
Kirschbl\u00fcten auf dem Campus, im Hintergrund die Glaspyramide a.k.a. Copyshop \/\/ Cherry blossoms on campus, with the glass pyramid in the background <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Kirschbl\u00fcten <\/a>
Kirschbl\u00fcten auf dem Campus \/\/ Cherry blossoms on campus <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Der <\/a>
Der zentrale Platz auf dem Campus \/\/ The central quad on campus <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teil 2 meiner “Zeitreise” nach Seoul: Natur. Eine Aprilwoche lang herrscht in Korea nahezu Ausnahmezustand. T\u00e4gliche Ausfl\u00fcge an ber\u00fchmte Aussichtspunkte, Tausende Fotoshootings, und Millionen Social Media Eintr\u00e4ge. Japan ist f\u00fcr diese Zeit weltweit bekannt, aber auch in Korea ist sie ein wichtiger Teil der Kultur: Die Kirschbl\u00fctenzeit. Eine Woche lang bl\u00fchen im ganzen Land die… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,129],"tags":[57,58,62,73,91,99],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philip-sudkorea","category-english","tag-kirschbluete","tag-korea","tag-living-in","tag-natur","tag-seoul","tag-throwback"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.5","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p81wMH-fz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sofagoesabroad.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/img_8670.jpg?fit=3264%2C2448","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofagoesabroad.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofagoesabroad.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofagoesabroad.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofagoesabroad.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofagoesabroad.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofagoesabroad.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4504,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofagoesabroad.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/4504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofagoesabroad.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofagoesabroad.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofagoesabroad.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofagoesabroad.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}