{"id":11721,"date":"2013-08-27T07:32:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T14:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=11721"},"modified":"2014-05-26T09:43:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T16:43:10","slug":"no-swimming-korea-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/no-swimming-korea-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"No Swimming (Korea Tuesday)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11722\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/137_2230-RAW-no-swimming-in-Korean-ditch-UN-cemetery.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11722\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/137_2230-RAW-no-swimming-in-Korean-ditch-UN-cemetery-800x590.jpg\" alt=\"no swimming in Korean ditch UN cemetery\" width=\"800\" height=\"590\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/137_2230-RAW-no-swimming-in-Korean-ditch-UN-cemetery-800x590.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/137_2230-RAW-no-swimming-in-Korean-ditch-UN-cemetery-250x184.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/137_2230-RAW-no-swimming-in-Korean-ditch-UN-cemetery.jpg 1462w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No Swimming sign in UN Memorial Cemetery in Korea (\uc7ac\ud55c\uc720\uc5d4\uae30\ub150\uacf5\uc6d0)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There were two things that I packed for Korea that I never used. One was a long-sleeved shirt. I&#8217;m not sure if I ever encountered temperatures in the 70s during my two-month, summer stay in Korea, let alone the 60s (even after midnight). The other was a swimming suit. I never saw a swimming pool. I did see a couple of beaches, but several people told me that Koreans can&#8217;t swim, at all. In fact, while I was there a group of Korean kids died after their boat capsized just off the coast of the Boryeong Mud Festival (\ubcf4\ub839\uba38\ub4dc\ucd95\uc81c). Sad, but with no swimming pools it isn&#8217;t too surprising that the chance to swim or that the swimming skills of the natives are slim to none. <\/p>\n<p>I found this sign to be a bit humorous. Is it really necessary to have a sign saying &#8220;no swimming&#8221; in a dry ditch that is less than one foot in depth? Maybe it is not always dry, but still&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BTW, this was in the UN Memorial Cemetery in <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/busan\/>Busan<\/a>. I will have more pictures and stories from there later. It was an emotional experience for me despite the weirdness of this sign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were two things that I packed for Korea that I never used. One was a long-sleeved shirt. I&#8217;m not sure if I ever encountered temperatures in the 70s during my two-month, summer stay in Korea, let alone the 60s (even after midnight). The other was a swimming suit. I never saw a swimming pool. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[436],"tags":[471,446,429,480],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11721"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11726,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11721\/revisions\/11726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}