Circuit Breaker

A Jersey Giant rooster with glossy black plumage, seated upright like a gentleman on a stool at a covered market food stall in Seoul in a charcoal suit, white shirt and loosened grey tie, a steaming bowl of knife-cut noodles on the steel counter before him, warm stall lights and the market's long vaulted roof behind

Same Price as Spring

Down a sixth in three days, up a sixth in one, and still the worst month in nearly thirty years. At the noodle counter the price has not moved since spring, and he has come here mostly to be near something steady.

31 July 2026