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The Strategist

            In Busan, Korea: The strategic game of Janggi - very similar to the Chinese Xiangqi, where armies face off against each other as in western chess. Very popular with older men who play in parks or crowd around those that do, freely dispensing advice.

Today in a park I witnessed an elderly man loudly playing an old song from a pocketed device as he wandered from game to game, another 10 minutes later singing the song that had become his earworm, and another swatting a large bug off the shoulder of a player and insisting he couldn't play with a bug on his shoulder! (I'm pretty sure that's what he was saying.) All the while other pairs of strategists hunched and stared in a trance at their little worlds. 
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Taken on: February 3, 2016

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Scott Garriott

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Camera: Olympus E-M5MarkII, f/2.8, 1/1250 sec, 40mm, ISO 800 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Olympus E-M5MarkII
Aperture:	f/2.8
Exposure Time:	0.001 sec (1/1250)
Focal Length:	40mm
ISO:	800
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Auto, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
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