LIFE

The virtues of vegging out

B Magazine, Normita Thongtham, Published on 10/06/2012

» South Korea is one of the most affluent countries in Asia, however old habits die hard and many of the country's citizens still tend to backyard vegetable gardens just as their forebears did decades ago. My daughter, Nalinee, who is now in Yeosu, South Korea, observed that locals there ''like to grow vegetables in containers in their backyards or in vacant lots near their houses. The soil does not look fertile yet the plants grow very well.''