Sometimes, translations aren’t always correct. A few weeks ago on Easter weekend, we went to Eunyong for wild duck followed by a visit to the flower festival. Among the many things we saw to eat, one bowl of roasted flesh was described as “Dolphin.” Well, It wasn’t Dolphin.

This weekend, another festival comes to Ulsan. The Annual Whale Festival. MyeongHee said she wanted to go, and that’s when I learned that what she thought she was telling me was dolphin was actually Whale meat.

Well, we’ll go check out this festival (http://www.whalekorea.com/) and see what the fuss is all about.  Google or AltaVista can translate (albeit rather poorly) this site into English. The early buzz on the festival says it more about hunting, killing and eating the mammals than saving or preserving them. That 97% of the rest of the world has banned whale hunting is not a deterrent to the Koreans. They hunt and kill them under the banner of “science.” They even have special processing facilities (called restaurants) to dispose of the carcasses after the science is complete, so it’s all ok.