My wife got fed up with the rain and the flu in Finland. Yesterday morning, she flew back to Spain. Some people pay for going to vacations and she paid for escaping from the vacation. I took her to the airport and moved to Jani's studio. The problem is that Jani doesn't have a washing machine nor iron but Reeta promised that I can go to her place to clean my clothes before flying on Sunday to Yeosu via Frankfurt and Seoul. I found out that Sari got the same flights - she participates in the Garden of Delights exhibition too - and it's nice to travel with a friend. Sari said that she has never been to Asia and is feeling a bit uneasy about it. I promised to be her guide or guardian angel though I've never been to Korea. I said that she should practice now with chopsticks because the metal ones they use in Korea don't hold food easily and require advanced skills of the user.

I've been isolated for a while in my grandparents summer cottage by the lake Päijänne in the central Finland. It was raining cats and dogs all the time - normal August in this country - but I loved to sit in the sauna and watch the stars and the lake. I had no internet connection and I didn't charge my mobile phone when the battery died, Only one thing from the outer world  I couldn't escape, my grandmother was watching all the day the Beijing Olympic Games. I don't want to be politically correct and criticize the lack of the human rights in the Peoples' Republic of China but I don't get the the official slogan One world, one dream. What happened with the pluralism, multi-culturalism? Sure they don't exist in China but they would make a better selling motto.

Our land, our land, our fatherland
Sound loud, O name of worth
No mount that meets the heaven's band
No hidden vale, no wavewashed strand
Is loved, as is our native North
Our own forefathers' earth

Thy blossom, in the bud laid low
Yet ripened shall upspring
See! From our love once more shall grow
Thy light, thy joy, thy hope, thy glow
And clearer yet one day shall ring
The song our land shall sing

In the morning, we take a flight to the fatherland.

Finally, my work in Yeosu, Korea, will be the basic set: A baseball playing pig painted on the wall with the slogan We Love Samsung and Kim Il-sung and, of course, 25 drawings about fast food and blitzkrieg.

Samsung is South Korea's largest company and the world's second largest conglomerate by revenue, leading several industries in the world. The core of the company is formed by electronics, shipbuilding and construction.

Kim Il-sung  was the leader of North Korea from its founding in early 1948 until his death in 1994. He established a personality cult of the Great Leader” and switched from the Marxist-Leninist ideology to his self-developed Juche idea.

Baseball is originally a U.S sport and it was introduced to Korea in the late nineteenth century by the missionary P. Gillett. South Korea hosted the Baseball World Cup in 1982 and won the tournament. The Korean Baseball Organization, country's professional baseball league started in the same year. The teams of the KBO are generally named after the business conglomerates which owns them. One of the most succesful  teams is Samsung Lionsa based in Daegu.

If the installation were somewhere else than in Korea, Samsung could be changed to any super conglomerate and Kim Jong-Il to any omnipotent leader but I really love the sung sung rhyme.

My little French car is broken again. I’m broke but I dream of Japanese luxury.

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