This little light of mine, I'm going to let it shine

This past weekend some fellow native English speakers and I went to Jinju. A City located in the Gyeongangnam-Do province. Basically 4 hours South East of Seoul by bus / on the complete other side of Korea. I must say I LOVE that I can travel the whole country and see parts of it on weekends. Although I love Canada, Korea has the advantage that most things (exception: a few of the islands & North Korea) are accessible by a short car / bus ride.

This past weekend Jinju was hosting the "Jinju Namgang Yudeung Festival," aka a lantern festival. This festival was rated as the number one festival for the past five years by the Korean government. Of all the festivals I have been to so far... I definitely agree that this festival was one of the best (so far) :D .

While I was in Jinju I also got the opportunity to check out what is known as the Jinju Castle.. or fortress where there was lanterns throughout it (as it is located right beside the festival site). Also there was traditionally dressed people that what I call the "paparazzi" were taking photos of so on my jog through the fortress I snapped a few photos too.

Now because all of this wasn't enough excitement and adventure for one weekend... beside the lantern festival there was also the Silk Festival and the Drama Festival (both were quite small though). Below is a photo of some purple.. yes purple silk worms that were on display (although in this photo they look more pink, they really were purple).