Icheon

It's called Jukdangcheon Stream.

It's in Icheon, Gyeonggi-do Province.

This particular stream has even earned the nickname Guppy Stream because of the sheer number of guppies found in its waters.

For those of you who don't know, guppies are small, colorful tropical fish commonly kept in home aquariums.

Brown now climbs to third place in the season's order of merit thanks to this win.

Over on the KLPGA, it was the Seoul Shinmun Open held at H1 Club in Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.

Winning here was Ma Seyoung.

Playoff victory for Ma Seyoung as she gained her first victory on the KLPGA Tour.

And we actually have a Suwon experience there, going to the fortress and the palace and even the kimbap shop from the Netflix drama, The Extraordinary Attorney Woo.

So if you want to do that, but if you really want a really cool day trip from Seoul, Icheon, I-C-H-E-O-N, not Incheon, not Icheon, Icheon, I-C-H-E-O-N. It's Korea's pottery center.

It has been that for centuries.

I mean, in fact, in the 16th century, Japanese pirates were kidnapping Korean potters from Icheon and bringing them back to Japan.

And the historical record showed that suddenly Japan's pottery got a little better.

It's really full of local flavor.

You can get a lot of cool pottery experiences.

And they're great museums.

... a scouting trip to, uh, to see, you know, the logistics, how we could make it work with our move there.

And, um, my mother-in-law had been living in Icheon, which a lot of the clay audience will recognize as the home to the biennial one of the largest cash prizes and, you know, ceramic, uh, juried exhibitions in the world.

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It, it's really pottery central in Korea.

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... um, and then, yeah, it, it's interesting now with, um, you know, Kwak Kyung Tae teaches these immersive, um, onggi workshops at his studio in Icheon, the town where we lived, but he's also traveling all over the world these days teaching these onggi workshops, and that's been a really interesting development.

Um, and, and I think it's great.

A root that requires coarse salt and intense physical force just to make it palatable.

The harvest for these roots typically occurs from July to September, with agricultural regions in Korea like Yeju and Icheon being particularly noted for their cultivation.

As we wrap up this deep dive into doraji sengche, let's just lock in the core mechanics of mastering it.

It begins with sourcing, remembering that dried root is a flawless substitute if given an 8-12 hour cold soak.