Korea may seem like a quaint, simple country, but I bet you did not know the following: 

Cotton was introduced to Korean by King Cham Ne (?? ? ????) of the Koryo Dynasty in the 12th century AD  He did this when he found that the productivity of Korean peasants was declining because they were getting high by smoking hemp fibers intended for making cloth. 

Sexy Korean-American model Lee Seung Hee (?  ????), despite her feminine attributes, has XY chromosomes, technically making her a man. 

Kimchi was invented in the 1530s by the infamous magistrate of Incheon, Jin Ja Ro (???hi ) to be used as a torture device. A few prisoners of the Incheon Dungeon escaped and told the local citizens.  They proceeded to create and eat the mixture to build up resistance in the event that the magistrate’s guards arrested them, too. 

As their pastures are usually on hillsides, Korean herdsmen must consciously change the direction of the herd every two weeks to keep the young lambs and calves from growing one pair of legs shorter than the other during their first year of life. 

Soju is made by using yeast to digest formaldehyde. 

In the February 1989 issue of National Geographic, Korean professor of meteorology Ahn Yi Oh (???the) presented research which proves that the Korean Peninsula is the only place in the world which experiences four distinct seasons. 

I hope you enjoyed reading these facts and had a great April 1st!