Bucheon Intangible Culture and Heritage Expo (BICHE)

This is the entrance to the expo. The grounds were covered with beautiful sculptures and art projects.



Netta in one of the sculptures.

This was a mask dance performance that we watched. Netta liked this drunk character. He was very silly.

We made necklaces with an intangible treasure. Olive was sad because she wasn't able to do one because we were using exacto knives so the wonderful artist just came over and helped her to make one. He was so kind and Olive really enjoyed being able to make one.


This man was an intangible treasure who was painting fans. He has two brushes in one hand and was switching between them. Netta noticed that only one had paint on it and the other one he was using to blend colors on the fan.
Netta in hanbok.
Netta being interviewed about hanbok. They asked her if she liked wearing hanbok. What it was called and what it's name means. She knew it all!
Netta playing with the spinning frisbee thingy.



John crossdressing again.

John and Netta doing some rock sculpture.
Netta making tashik with the intangible treasure of tashik.

Netta with a lit up sculpture.
This next section is about our tour of the DMZ. It was interesting but not the best tour we have been on. It was a lot of driving on a bus and only a few minutes in each place. Also we were interested in the wildlife that has developed in the DMZ now that fewer people live there but there was only a casual mention of that by our tour guide. We wanted to see some less touristy and more wild places. But with all of the security I think we need to find a tour more catered to that and try again.
This is in the DMZ. This was a sculpture that Netta really liked. Inside of the ball was a raised South Korea on one side and a raised North Korea on the other. The two sides were being pushed together by people from each country. Netta is helping of course.
The view of North Korea. Very barren and different from the tree covered mountains on the South Korean side. Our tour guide said that North Korea has burned most of their trees for fuel. It looked sad and bleak.
An old locomotive that was left in the DMZ.
There were also tunnels that have been discovered that were built by the North Koreans - we couldn't take pictures there. John and Olive went down in one but Netta didn't want to so I stayed with her.

After our tour we were dropped off by the COEX mall which houses the kimchi museum. We have been wanting to check it out so we went and took a look. A lot of plastic food and some free samples. Pretty fun.
Silly staged photos begin........


That's all for now. More to write later --Olive is up and I am back on duty.