well, despite some good-natured swearing from the guys, they accepted the cretan’s edict and pulled up stakes, as you can see above. as seung-hee and i watched them pack and saunter morosely off—though, truth be known, seung-hee and I might’ve been the more melancholy because of the principle of the matter, not to mention the interesting scenes we had been privileged to watch on a good day at the beach--we wondered how far it was they were going or, indeed, if they were just going to call it day and take leave of the beach.

we watched them walk, and walk, and…

stop no more than 50 meters away and put down stakes in a place that was more crowded than where they had just been.

my wife summed it up best when she said, “only the authorities would have the single-minded stupidity to stop people from having harmless fun”—or something to that effect.

ah, such is korea—and today’s modern world of interfering government and authority…