Muddy boots, drones and makgeolli: Lee takes wheel in rural Daegu

President Lee Jae Myung stepped into the rice paddies of rural Daegu on Friday, driving a rice transplanter and later sharing Korean rice wine, or makgeolli, with farmers in an outreach to rural communities. Wearing muddy boots, a straw hat and a towel draped around his neck under the warm spring sun, Lee loaded seedling trays onto the rice transplanter in Sobo Myeon, Gunwi County, before personally planting young rice seedlings in the flooded paddies. After finishing the work and noticing that

By The Korea Herald