The Radish Spirit-Man (무우 도사 아저씨)

As a kid growing up in Seoul, there was a locally aired animation series that told traditional local stories  through these speaking vegetable, Sprit-Man (“Do Sa” 도사). These narrative episodes series were odd and quirky as I recalled them, and my old memories were right– it is pretty weird.

Indeed, it was more than odd that a vegetable like a Radish would be chosen as a speaking spirit “thing” person–  so yet again, here is another image of the pair of speaking rhythmic duo, the Beets. (Get it?)

Ha.

Ha ha.

Ha ha ha.

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*On a windy evening (November 2011?), I was merely heading off for another night of second semester  graduate studies. Quickly however, I was startled to see him– such an oddly hair styled man– get off on the Central Line station for  Kyung Hee University. Indeed, he struck me to be a true modern day Radish Guru,  who was carrying a bunch of cultivated radishes and beets in his plastic shopping bag. How’s that for a metaphysical dramatic play of words?