Korea’s Rice Harvest - A Sticky Tradition (Photos)

It’s Fall and all over South Korea farmers are out with mechanical harvesters, scythes and traditional wooden backpacks - collecting the rice from their now golden fields.

Li Jeong Hwang harvests rice in a mountain-side field. Jarrod Hall/The Epoch Times

It’s Fall and all over South Korea farmers are out with mechanical harvesters, scythes and traditional wooden backpacks—collecting the rice from their now golden fields.

Korean rice is very different from the rice you might find in the cuisine of almost any other Asian country.  They don’t enjoy it light, fluffy, soft or tender. Koreans enjoy their rice sticky and glutinous.