Soil

This shows what the soil? is like after one night of rain. This is a road/driveway bulldozed out of the new topsoil just added to a field on the way to school. A night's rain has made it like this. This soil is taken from the 'mountains' that they are demolishing/topping to put the new motor-ways through.In the year we have been here many of the farms around us have been raised up to half a metre or so. My guess is that this stuff is what has been blown over from China in the Spring 'huang-sa' or 'yellow sand' that the Koreans complain about regularly. I suspect ( and would love to really know ) that most of the 'mountains' in this 'montainous' country are merely sand-hills. Certainly several of the ones I've seen being demolished, like the one behind our own apartment building, here, don't seem to have any solid element to them.
I gather that we might be going to a 'pottery village' some time in the future and I am really looking forward to that. It has been there for over a thousand years and is quite famous for a particular tye of glaze made from local materials. I was there earlier but it was raining and people here seem to be rather afraid of the rain and we just stood around under shelter and went home again.