May 3, 2013 Jeonju, South Korea Yin-Yang Weather I have never realized how much the weather could matter to one's well-being. One of the rarely advertised features of the misnomer that is the “Land of the Morning Calm,” [a.k.a. Korea], is its wildly unpredictable but consistently unpleasant weather roller-coaster. And, of course, the seriously subzero winters that feel about 10 C colder than they actually are due to extreme humidity. The weather, like the country itself, is bipolar. Day-night gradient is 20-30C easily. The nights are moist, all-penetrating cold that one needs winter gear for in May. The days – one could walk in a t-shirt. Add to that the frequent, unpredictable rain, and you more or less have the picture. I have never been so irrationally pissed off by the weather. Until Korea. Wise Russians say: “there is no bad weather – just bad clothes.” Perhaps - in fact, until I came here, I believed them. Or maybe they just haven't been to Korea....