Cho Seong-bin lives in a 60-year-old country house in a mountain village in Pyeongchang, Gangwon Province, and enjoys a sensible summer surrounded by nature.
The house has many windows and few walls, offering cool ventilation and a comfortable environment that needs no separate summer retreat.
Cho Seong-bin says, "This is home. Yes, this is our modest house. We come here sometimes, but every time we come, I want to keep coming back," expressing his satisfaction with life in the country house.
Cho Seong-bin asks the production crew for help picking the ripe berries, explaining, "What is this? Is it a linden fruit? Linden. Yes. Does this grow in summer? Yes. In a little while they'll fall, so we need to pick them now."
Linden fruit is known to help with fatigue recovery and blood circulation, and he explains that steeping it as an extract and drinking it chilled is good.
He uses an airtight fermentation method so it can be enjoyed fresh for a long time.
Cho Seong-bin, now in his tenth year of mountain village life, has fulfilled his long-held dream of living in nature.
Since moving here he has stayed healthy without illness, saying he can't remember the last time he had a bout of body aches and feels much healthier.
Cho Seong-bin says, "I've always wanted to live in nature. Since I came here, I've become so healthy I can't even remember the last time I had body aches. So I'm satisfied with this life now." He expresses high satisfaction with his present life.
Cho Seong-bin visits the valley with a friend to escape the summer heat.
Dipping his feet in the cool stream, he searches for crayfish and salamanders, spending joyful time as if returned to childhood innocence.
He says, "I love the valley so much. It's hot in summer, so the two of us came to catch crayfish while reminiscing about old times."
While catching crayfish in the valley, Cho Seong-bin and his companion discover a female crayfish carrying young and express their wonder.
Seeing many baby crayfish makes them even more amazed, and out of respect for that life, they return the mother and her young to the stream.
Cho Seong-bin says, "Sending the mother and her young back to the valley makes me feel happier than catching them did."
In the henhouse, a single duckling was hatched among a flock of eleven chicks, and it now lives alongside them.
Cho Seong-bin explains, "Only one duck hatched, so it became the ugly duckling," describing the duck that has become a special presence.
Comparing the moment of collecting eggs to a treasure hunt, he says, "When the hens lay eggs every day, it feels like I'm pulling out spring itself."
His friend says, "Old taverns must have been like this. Every little prop brings back long-ago memories," praising the feeling of the tavern."
Cho Seong-bin says that in his ten years in the mountain village, lighting wood fires is what he loves most.
Even on hot summer days, a wood fire feels strangely cool, and he talks about the charm of the fire, saying, "A wood fire is hot yet cool. Ah, that's what's amazing."
Cho Seong-bin cooks in his own way, using ingredients from around him as the season allows.
He sets out a hearty table with spicy Korean freshwater fish stew with the local summer restorative fish, eggs rolled with butterbur leaves, and hand-torn dough soup cooked in a large cast-iron cauldron.
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