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When travelling around in Korea, you can't help but notice the presence of agriculture everywhere. Here are flooded rice paddies, soon after planting. |
| ..by mid summer, the fields start to get greener.. | 
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..in late summer the fields are dark green in color, and the rice has grown tall. |
| ..a row of growing rice seedlings. About 1/4 of all land in the Republic of Korea is under cultivation, with 55% of it being wet rice paddy fields. Rice production amounts to 80% of the principal grain harvest. The average household farm owns about 1.3 hectares of land. | 
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..some terracing is done on low-gradient hillsides, but recently, with the broad redistribution and redesigning of lands, most fields are generally flat, squared off sections (like the ones above). |
| ..farmers working the land in South Cholla. | 
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..here workers load a truck full with radishes in Kangwon Province. |
| These farmers are probably spraying their rice paddy with a pesticide. | 
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Here a farm family in Kangchon dries red peppers in their yard. |
| This is a farming residential neighborhood in Kangchon. | 
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...a countryside home. |