Yesterday I had an experience that I still cant quite believe.

On the spur of the moment, I was asked to give a talk at the Ulsan public school. Chang Yong (our ‘Mr. Fix It’ here in Korea), Je Jong (our interpreter ) and I arrived amidst giggles and stares. We went into a studio and did a closed circuit presentation to the entire school which consisted of 1,200 Korean school girls.

Despite a few technical glitches it went really well. We took some photos with the AV staff in the studio and when we began to leave it turned into a scene from the Beatles movie A Hard Day's Night
except the girls were Korean rather the British & American with bad hairdos. We literally could not get out of the studio, when we opened the door we were forced back inside by little girls with cell phone cameras. We tried to make our way into the hall but were forced back into the studio.

So the teachers closed the door and cleared the hall. Ten minutes later, we ran to the car grabbing our shoes on the way out the door. We are followed by dozens of girls again snapping photos. As we were leaving, there were little girls in uniforms hanging out of every window waving goodbye.

Unbelievable! The Beatles aint got nothin’ on Greenpeace!

Jim Riccio.