Hapkido Family

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Originally uploaded by The Stranger.

Here we are again on the mountain. Its Korean custom to be stern in photographs. After the mountain we were taken to an incredible outdoor fish market with live octopus wriggling on the floor, live sharks, whale meat!, and a myriad of muli- fishes of every shape ans size. We stopped in front of one place and the grandmaster pointed to about a dozen live creatures in buckets; squid, fishes etc. The ladies start butchering the creatures alive right in front of us. We head upstairs and 10 minutes later its in front of us. Uncooked! We take the pieces and wrap them in leaves and eat them with spicy sauces and raw garlic and chilies. Of course almost every bite is washed down with a shot of soju. I think Ive almost mastered the various rules of etiquette.