Jeonbuk Life 2018-1 Spring
Jeonbuk Life is a quarterly project of the Jeollabuk-do Center for International Affairs (JBCIA) which is a specialized public diplomacy agency established by the Jeollabuk-do Provincial Government. Our goal is to spread news to Jeollabuk-do’s international community, as well as to carry news of Jeollabuk-do throughout Korea and abroad. This magazine publishes once per season.
Jeonbuk Life is a quarterly project of the Jeollabuk-do Center for International Affairs (JBCIA) which is a specialized public diplomacy agency established by the Jeollabuk-do Provincial Government. Our goal is to spread news to Jeollabuk-do’s international community, as well as to carry news of Jeollabuk-do throughout Korea and abroad. This magazine publishes once per season.
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Around the end of March, winter blows its
final snow frost and the jubilee of the spring season
begins. With the coronation of Spring, reigning cherry
blossoms take center stage. During the celebration of the
flower season, these sacred trees are the most prominent spring blossom
in Korea, and indeed a very magnificent tree to behold, but the delicate
petal’s life span is short lived. Like a royal court, cherry blossom trees
are inheritors of noble blood presenting themselves in all their festival
finery to the seasonal monarchy. The throne gives audience to these
aristocratic trees until they fall out of favor, and then one by one they
accept their fate, staining the sidewalks with dying petals that fall like
pollinated tears. But Spring, in all her revelry, returns every year with her
court in full bloom again, to adoring crowds and countrywide festivals.
I think it is the happiest time of the year in South Korea, but it is not
untouched by a complicated history.
Photo by Masaaki Komori, <https://unsplash.com/photos/14cHwhRKJh8>, CC0
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