This is a photo taken in Chung Mu City at the boarding house restaurant where I ate. This is the grandmother cooking fish over a fire of pressed coal (yan tan). As an american, I was provided a fried egg with my rice, vegetables, fish, and soup...
The lady on the left was the owner of the house where I lived in Chung Mu City, now Tongyeong City. The other ladies were regulars for card playing and long naps on the porch. This photo was taken in the winter of 1976.