Jim's Korea

Even the weather generates challenges.

While others have difficulties holding onto wallets or keys, I am always losing umbrellas. On the day depicted in the above cartoon, I must have lost my 30th umbrella in two months. That is not an exaggeration. The umbrella was in my possession for only 30 minutes. As soon as I entered my office, I realized that it was enjoying a taxi tour of greater Busan. What made this event even more frustrating is that Sunmi had bought me a really nice umbrella just two days earlier . You don't have to be a genius to guess what happened to it.

Busan does have a great deal of rain. While some parts of Canada are infamous for showers, my hometown in the east is not. I'm just haven't adapted to Korea's rainy season.

If it is scientifically possible to produce an umbrella tree, please tell me how. Otherwise, I stand to lose a fortune on umbrellas.