Ms Kims tea room outside the gate at Camp Mermaid. (right side, with porch)
A good place to meet someone.

Ms Kim had been married for years. When her husband found out she had not been a virgin when she married, the marriage was annulled as if it never existed. As usual, her family did not want her back.

In my wildest dreams I imagined that the 2 lane blacktop road that passed by here would someday become a superhighway. I was dumbstruck to learn that there is now a subway station here. Folks, this village is surrounded by open farmland. There was probably 900 people living in a 5 mile radius, including the soldiers.

The local tea room was more a part of Korean life than McDonalds is to us. The typical home was just 1 room and not suitable for entertaining. This tea room was arranged much like a restaurant with tables and chairs, but many tea rooms were furnished like living rooms with sofas, coffee tables and stuffed chairs. You could bring your friends and spend all day drinking tea. In winter the hostess would bring you a hot damp towell to freshen up. In summer it would be cold. A disk jockey (live) would play requests (you hand a slip of paper to the hostess).

Koreans liked sugar in their tea. If you placed a bowl of sugar in front of them, they would be having moist, tea flavored sugar.

Ms Kims tea room outside the gate at Camp Mermaid. (right side, with porch)
A good place to meet someone.

Ms Kim had been married for years. When her husband found out she had not been a virgin when she married, the marriage was annulled as if it never existed. As usual, her family did not want her back.

In my wildest dreams I imagined that the 2 lane blacktop road that passed by here would someday become a superhighway. I was dumbstruck to learn that there is now a subway station here. Folks, this village is surrounded by open farmland. There was probably 900 people living in a 5 mile radius, including the soldiers.

The local tea room was more a part of Korean life than McDonalds is to us. The typical home was just 1 room and not suitable for entertaining. This tea room was arranged much like a restaurant with tables and chairs, but many tea rooms were furnished like living rooms with sofas, coffee tables and stuffed chairs. You could bring your friends and spend all day drinking tea. In winter the hostess would bring you a hot damp towell to freshen up. In summer it would be cold. A disk jockey (live) would play requests (you hand a slip of paper to the hostess).

Koreans liked sugar in their tea. If you placed a bowl of sugar in front of them, they would be having moist, tea flavored sugar.