Ruminations in Korea

Comment by E-Rod

10 May 2005 @ 2:17 pm

Brian should be proud. There is no greater compliment than to be called godless.

It’s like being called brainful.

Comment by dg611

18 June 2005 @ 7:59 am

Just a note: I had some experience with this yellow stuff this spring too…I think it was around the same time as you are talking about (beg. of may) and actually it was not “yellow dust” it was pine pollen from a grove of pine trees close to my school…Pine pollen is a very noticable yellow color while ‘yellow dust’ is not actually yellow at all (more like regular brownish)…it just looks that way in the sky. And pine pollen is even more likely to cause an allergic reaction like you described.
cheers.

Comment by Jeff in Korea

18 June 2005 @ 12:55 pm

This was sand. Yellow sand.황사. From the Mongolian desert. Pine pollen doesn’t blow in from the East ocean and cover 1/6 of the sky fron horizon to horizon. It wasn’t an allergic reaction. It was scratchy, watery eyes and dry scratcy throat because I was riding my motorcycle with an open-face helmet in the middle of a full yellow-sand advisory. After 16 years of experiencing yellow sand,I know yellow sand.

Comment by dg611

19 June 2005 @ 8:36 pm

no offense intended…just that my students and I had a little discussion about it…I to have had my experience with yellow sand after almost 10 years in Korea…but what I saw that day was wave after wave of pine pollen and my students (except one) were telling me that it was ‘yellow dust’ when I knew that it was not. The also knew it when they looked out the window and saw the waves coming from the pine forest directly behind our school…It is however, easy for someone to confuse the two things.