But they do not drink tea. They drink rice water instead.
The rice water is water that rice has been boiled in.
At their meals the men always eat first and the women wait on them.
When the men have eaten as much as they want, then the women and
children eat.
The tables they have are very low. It would not do for them to have
high tables, as they sit on the floor.
They have no knives or forks. They eat with spoons, and they use
chopsticks, as the Chinamen do.
They have no water-pipes in their houses. In the towns men carry water
in pails. They have no gas. For light at night they use candles.
They have only one kind of coin. It is a small piece of copper. It
has a square hole in the middle. They put these coins on strings and
carry them around their necks. It would take many such coins to make a
dollar.
[Illustration: Korean Money.]
There are farms in Korea, where they grow wheat, rice, rye, tobacco,
cotton, watermelons, and many kinds of fruit.
If you were in Korea, you would think it the strangest country in the
world. They do many things very unlike the way we do them. With us
bright-colored things are worn by women. In Korea the men wear bright
colors.
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