We visited Korea and Japan again in August/early September, 2023, and had a wonderful time. We love going to Korea and Japan—they are beautiful countries and the people are very warm and welcoming to visitors. So, I’m happy to be able to open up this blog again with lots of new content.
The main reason for the visit was a conference Rod attended in Pyeong-chang at the SNU (Seoul National University) agricultural campus there. But we spent our first 4 days in Seoul on the main SNU campus, and then our last night, after Pyeong-chang, back in Seoul on the SNU campus again.
The conference is called JRS (Joint Ruminant Symposium). It is made up of researchers and students from Korea, Japan and China and rotates every two years among those countries. They also invite three or four international invited speakers and their spouses or significant other. The invited speakers also serve as the judges for the student paper presentations and decide on two winners from each country.
This time, some researchers from Hokkaido University in Sapporo added on a satellite workshop after the JRS conference, and we were lucky to go to that too. Because of that we were able to spend 6 days in Sapporo, which we have visited a number of times before.
Lots more about our adventures to come, but here are a few photos, giving a brief summary of some of the things that we saw and did.
Experiences in Korea and Japan 
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