Jwibulnori: Swinging Fire Cans Over Incheon’s Last Rice Paddies
Every English guide to jwibulnori (쥐불놀이) files it in the same drawer: a folk ritual performed on the first full moon of the lunar year, when farmers burned the edges of their rice paddies to drive out rats and pests. That is where the game comes from. It is not what it was when I … Read more