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Wild grapes and wild cherries…
I want to live in Jangdeunggae in Anmyeondo, eating wild grapes and wild cherries.
My parents are also against it.
When I was growing up in the 1940s and 1960s, I used to eat wild cherries on the spring mountain in Jangdeunggae, Jungjang-ri…
In the US, I grew wild cherries in my garden, and each tree, 5 meters tall, produced a whole basket of wild cherries. I picked them again in the summer, and when I ate them seasonally, they were delicious… but I felt like I was committing a sin…
Aside from that, if you go to Jangdeunggae Mountain in Anmyeondo, you’ll find a long-stemmed cherries, and the buds are incredibly delicious. I’ve seen wild cherries somewhere in Seosan, but not in Gangwon-do or Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. The thorns are large and clean, so I used them to remove boils. In my hometown of Jangdeunggae, I grew up picking wild vegetables and fruits like blackcurrant, hechim, bracken, chik, hazelnut (gaegeum), porusu, red wild strawberries, purple wild strawberries, chestnuts, wild grapes, wild cherries, Korean cherries, wild chives, plantains, mugwort, and water parsley, all in the spring and summer.
Later, with the Hwaseongsa Salt Farm and Doosan Salt Farm and Ranch managing the mountains, most of the mountains and fields were transformed into ranches.
I wonder if they still exist today…
About 20 years ago, I contacted Doosan in the United States and proposed creating a small botanical garden on the mountains surrounding the Anmyeondo Jangdeung Branch School to protect and preserve these plants permanently. I also mentioned this to the Seosan media.
I believe these plants are special, endemic plants that each country and region should protect.
Nice to meet you, teacher.
That’s a good idea. Consider exporting “Anmyeondo Meoru” to the United States.
Consider it.
From Sangwon Lee, a pediatrician specializing in the US and Korea
Copyright drleepediatrics.com 3/3/2026
Copyright drleepediatrics.com 3/3/2026
Wild grapes and wild cherries…
I want to live in Jangdeunggae in Anmyeondo, eating wild grapes and wild cherries.
My parents are also against it.
When I was growing up in the 1940s and 1960s, I used to eat wild cherries on the spring mountain in Jangdeunggae, Jungjang-ri…
In the US, I grew wild cherries in my garden, and each tree, 5 meters tall, produced a whole basket of wild cherries. I picked them again in the summer, and when I ate them seasonally, they were delicious… but I felt like I was committing a sin…
Aside from that, if you go to Jangdeunggae Mountain in Anmyeondo, you’ll find a long-stemmed cherries, and the buds are incredibly delicious. I’ve seen wild cherries somewhere in Seosan, but not in Gangwon-do or Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. The thorns are large and clean, so I used them to remove boils. In my hometown of Jangdeunggae, I grew up picking wild vegetables and fruits like blackcurrant, hechim, bracken, chik, hazelnut (gaegeum), porusu, red wild strawberries, purple wild strawberries, chestnuts, wild grapes, wild cherries, Korean cherries, wild chives, plantains, mugwort, and water parsley, all in the spring and summer.
Later, with the Hwaseongsa Salt Farm and Doosan Salt Farm and Ranch managing the mountains, most of the mountains and fields were transformed into ranches.
I wonder if they still exist today…
About 20 years ago, I contacted Doosan in the United States and proposed creating a small botanical garden on the mountains surrounding the Anmyeondo Jangdeung Branch School to protect and preserve these plants permanently. I also mentioned this to the Seosan media.
I believe these plants are special, endemic plants that each country and region should protect.
Nice to meet you, teacher.
That’s a good idea. Consider exporting “Anmyeondo Meoru” to the United States.
Consider it.
From Sangwon Lee, a pediatrician specializing in the US and Korea
Copyright drleepediatrics.com 3/3/2026
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