Hadong and Gurye

  Countryside charms and nature's beauty await along the banks of the Seomjingang River   Gazing southeast, the sun rises slowly but surely over the horizon. The Seomjingang River’s pristine waters reflect the morning light…

Old Is New Again

Young entrepreneurs use old buildings to give Seoul new life   “Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration,…

SEOUL FROM ABOVE

[box_dark] Seoul from Above Blue Air’s helicopter tours let you see the city as you’ve never seen it before [/box_dark] You haven’t really seen Seoul until you’ve seen it from the cabin of a helicopter. Small-scale Korean airline…

DECEMBER GETAWAYS

[divider] [box_dark]December GETAWAYS[/box_dark] Maryangpo Sunset & Sunrise Festival  마량포 Taking in the final sunset of the year is a popular New Year’s Eve activity—it gives you an opportunity to ponder the ups and downs…

Seoul travel bits

[box_dark]Seoul travel bits[/box_dark] Mt. Namsan  남산 Mt. Namsan is a low mountain located in the center of Seoul, but in the dynastic times when Seoul was a small walled city, the mountain marked the southern edge of the capital.…
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ROMANTIC SUNSETS

[box_light] Romantic Sunsets West Sea village of Janghwa-ri offers an inspiring respite from the daily grind [/box_light] Written and photographed by John Steele Located approximately an hour and a half west of Seoul, the farming village…

THE GO HUI-DONG HOUSE

[box_dark]The Go Hui-dong House[/box_dark] Written by Robert J. Fouser  Over the past couple of years, Koreans have taken an interest in historic relics of the troubled 20th century. Twentieth-century buildings of architectural and…

SAMGAKJI STATION

A man returns to the place an old lover left him, his tears mixing with the rain, but finds nothing more than the memories he came with. Ain’t that just it how it goes. It’s one of the oldest stories in the books, but this particular…

Sunchang

[box_dark]Sunchang  순창[/box_dark] The pleasant southwestern farming town of Sunchang is renowned for gochujang, the famed Korean red pepper paste and an integral ingredient in that most representative of Korean dishes, bibimbap.…

Jeongeup & Jangseong

[box_light]Jeongeup & Jangseong  정읍과 장성[/box_light] Autumn is a great time to be in the southwestern town of Jeongeup. By the first week of November, the legendary autumn foliage of Naejangsan National Park should be at its…

Gunsan

[box_light]Gunsan  군산[/box_light] The Yellow Sea port town of Gunsan is known for its seafood, early 20th-century architecture and migratory birds. Every autumn, great flocks of Baikal teals descend on the Geumgang River estuary…