article_snippet.sent: Surfer Shannon Aston, from New Zealand, said he felt compelled to start photographing the area while he was living and working in South Korea as a teacher.
article_snippet.sent: Two surfers ride the crest of a wave at the 38th parallel on the border between South and North Korea .
article_snippet.sent: Surfers ride the waves along one of the remote beaches scattered located a few hours drive north wast of Seoul .
article_snippet.sent: A longboarder prepares to head out into the waves.
article_snippet.sent: he said: 'Most surfers will ride waves wherever Most surfers can, extreme cold, lakes, river and everything in between. '
article_snippet.sent: Most don't care too much as long as they can surf.
article_snippet.sent: The Korean surfers are used to it and the foreigners just feel lucky to get some waves in a place where it is not famous for surfing.
article_snippet.sent: A surfer attempts to clean the heavy snow from surfer surfing equipment as surfer prepares for the day ahead .
article_snippet.sent: Two surfers trudge through knee-deep snow in order to surf the remote and inhospitable beaches near the Korean DMZ .
article_snippet.sent: A surfer makes A surfer way towards a nearby building after having surfed in the freezing waters on the Korean coast .
highlights_snippet.sent: South Korean adventure seekers have founded a surfing community near the country's border with the North .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: a surfing community near the country's border with the North consists of Seoul's growing jet-setting adventure class, hipsters, gangsters and ex-pats .