Swine Flu is scary stuff and it seems to get getting worse and worse in America and Mexico. There haven’t been any reported cases in Korea- thank gosh and I don’t think it’ll be much of a problem. Korea uses mainly domestic pigs, so I think they are isolated from the infected masses. Now I’m sure that the visa requirements (i.e. for E-2 teaching visas) for foreigner pigs are so tough that they wouldn’t even bother coming to Korea.
Plus I heard they feed the Korean pigs Kimchi. Kimchi is the cure all for everything. Apparently that’s what kept the Avian Flu away, so I don’t think the swine flu has any chance.
Oh, and a final note. What’s scary about this epidemic is that this flu can be transmitted from pigs to human, so I wouldn’t recommend kissing any pigs like in the picture above. Plus, cook your meat to around 70 degrees celcius (140 F). This will kill the virus.
Dan
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Daniel Gray is a Korean adoptee that returned to Korean in 2005 because he wanted to try and find his birth mother and to learn about Korean culture. He started a restaurant review blog in 2007, www.seouleats.com, that became a local and international hit. He and his blog has been featured in the New York Times, Monocle Magazine, The Kimchi Chronicles, Bizarre Foods, Rudy Maxa, Olive Magazine, Euronews and much more. He now is a partner at O’ngo Food Communications (www.ongofood.com), which is a culinary tourism and consulting company that offers Korean cooking classes and restaurant tours to travelers. Their food tours and cooking classes are ranked as one of the top attractions in Seoul according to tripadvisor.
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