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Look there! A newly wed bride steps out Dismounting from the wedding coach. The tradition expects the bride to step On the lid of the traditional huge pot Before entering into her home-to-be. The pot being hanged on the threshold. Look again! Smoke rising off the chimney, The woman puts the soybean skins in the fire, ‘tak, tak, tak’ sound comes from burning wood, Now the hearth blazes in flaming red And brightens the woman’s beautiful face. Her charms come unbidden Like a phrase in a sentence. An old man chanting first to the drums And the paddy planters sing after him, Sending the echoes over the Naju plains. The old man shouts a word of command And the planters move to the next line. I hear the famous Hori & Gyeori songs To converse with Mara and An cows “Mara is stepping back- A-Ha!!!! But An is just going slow, A-Ha!!!! Where are you going cow? Pay attention to where you are going Here! Here! Boy, Here! Go straight! Here, Boy, Here, Ahead we go!!!!!!!” Thus, the earth is tilled, The earth makes soft breaking sounds The cows breathe heavily The farmer’s song too gets out of breath The calf feeds on her mother’s breasts The life on the earth goes on and on.. ================================= Fourth Place win The Country is Korea Contest: Somewhere over the rainbow GLOSSARY Naju Plains: The productive agricultural plains of Naju. Hori and Gyeori songs: There is a tradition of gathering cows with a song. Jeonggeum-Ri: The most famous songs - Hori Song and Gyeori Song. Gyeori: The name of a large plow pulled by two cows. Mara: The right-hand cow in a team of two. An or Ahn Cow: The left-hand cow in a team of two. y twenty to thirty performers.