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With a population of over 48 million and a land mass a bit larger than the state of Indiana,
South Korea can't afford to waste any arable land. Areas that in the US would be planted
in grass are, in Korea, planted with foodcrops. Hence, although Seoul does today have suburbs, many Korean cities don't. The city ends, and the farms begin. These fields are just a few hundred meters from the apartment complex where Margaret lived for her first 3 months in Kangnung. In spite of growing interest in a western diet, rice remains a Korean staple, the main dish of most meals. This photograph was taken in May, when the rice fields had just been planted with greenhouse-started shoots, and flooded.
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