멧돼지다!

by Robert Koehler on January 14, 2013

in Photos of Korea

Spotted a wild boar on Mt. Taebaeksan on Friday morning.

And I lived to tell the tale.

{ 15 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Ryu January 14, 2013 at 2:01 pm: Wonder what the boar posted on his blog after seeing a hulking waygook in a hanbok creeping up on him through the brush.
2 Jakgani January 14, 2013 at 3:13 pm: Wild boars often roam South Korea, North Korea, Japan and China.

It’s not mating season – so you should be safe from attack, just be careful
of the tiger which is probably stalking it.Here is a wild boar in a “mart” in South Korea and another in a Japanese mart - http://www.japanprobe.com/2010/10/10/when-wild-boars-attack/
3 Jang January 14, 2013 at 5:08 pm: Just as in ‘Once There Was a Hushpuppy’…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFFiaTOAWIc
4 will.i.aint January 14, 2013 at 5:21 pm: 사진 안찍으셨어요?
5 Dokdoforever January 14, 2013 at 8:55 pm: That’s awesome. There are signs up all over the place on hiking trails warning of wild pigs, but I’ve never seen a trace of one. I saw one in Indonesia though. Nice picture.
6 Sanshinseon January 14, 2013 at 11:44 pm: Kewl sight! i’ve only seen a few, in all these years of hiking. it was probably hungry, to be roaming out in the snow so high up…
7 Keith January 15, 2013 at 12:18 am: I’ve never seen one in the wild. One of the biggest let downs about hiking in Korea is how little wildlife you see out there. I suppose that the numbers were never able to recover after the country’s starving post war years. It’s good you kept your distance, wild boar are quite dangerous and tough creatures.

A boar that had come down from the mountain to a friend’s neighbourhood in North Seoul to go ‘dumpster diving’ chased off a load of police, it charged them and they only had airguns. The airguns just pissed it off, so it charged the cops, apparently it was like a scene from the ‘Keystone Cops’ or something. I’d have loved to have been at the event.

I like game, they’re cool things, they add to the environment and they often taste delicious. What’s not to love about wild pigs or other game creatures?
8 Kuiwon January 15, 2013 at 2:03 am: Did it give you eye contact, as you took the photo?
9 The Sanity Inspector January 15, 2013 at 8:07 am: That reminds me–I wish the movie Chaw was still up on YouTube. I saw it on a plane ride to Korea a few years ago–fun stuff!
10 keyinjpop January 15, 2013 at 9:43 am: Oink oink.
11 Cloudfive January 15, 2013 at 3:56 pm: The lack of wild animals in South Korea makes me sad. I remember being so excited when I saw a coyote from my car window near Griffith Park in Los Angeles. There are also wild deer running around all over the place on Fire Island and they have no fear of humans. Is post-war hunger really the reason these animals have disappeared? If that’s the case, North Korea must have no wild creatures at all.

I hope the guy in Robert’s picture is finding enough to eat this winter. He probably doesn’t appreciate being called “game”.
12 Silver Surfer January 15, 2013 at 5:34 pm: Nice pic!
13 will.i.aint January 15, 2013 at 7:46 pm: C’mon . . . when in Rome, do as the Romans . . . and say “굴굴.”
14 keyinjpop January 16, 2013 at 1:17 am: I don’t live in Korea or know Korean.
15 flyingsword January 16, 2013 at 12:30 pm: Wild boar is good eating!

Use to know some guys would hunt them with a spear…of course you have to put a T across the spear shaft so when you stab them the don’t continue to run up the shaft and gore you…..