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If You Take a Great Big Bite of Gangwon Province’s Summer

In Gangwon, summer is not merely a season for travel or scenery but a season of harvest, labor, and the foods that carry the region’s life in them.

감자꽃 피는 계절마다 부정의는 깊어지네 [전국 인사이드]

SisaIN · By Park Seo-hwa · 17 June 2026 · read the original in Korean →

When one speaks of “the harvest season,” autumn is what commonly comes to mind, but in the Gangwon region it is summer that is truly the season of harvest. In June, as the summer green deepens, white potato blossoms burst open like falling snow all along the densely packed furrows; and by the summer solstice, when the sun is said to shine longer than on any other day of the year, clear-skinned haji potatoes, like the morning sun, are lifted from the earth at the tips of farmers’ wrinkled fingers. Across the broad lands of southern Yeongseo, corn that has grown as tall as an adult ripens to gold, while in the cool highlands, even in midsummer, radishes and napa cabbages shoot up vigorously. At night, when even the sun has gone to sleep, stout-bottomed cabbages are carried away between pairs of work gloves pulled firmly over both hands.

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