Category: Seongpo-Dong

With his daughter running the country now, former President Park Jung-Hee's reputation has long enjoyed rock-star status. There were loads of people at his birthplace here in Gumi, and they are building a park beside to further commemorate his life. (Visit in Google Maps.)    

Not far from the Battle of Dabu-Dong, the fighting raged all along the Nakdong River, and this spot near the north end of the Pusan Perimeter was also particularly hard fought. A section of the bridge below was blown up by the Americans in order to prevent the North Koreans...

This was ground zero of the battle to defend the Pusan Perimeter in the late summer of 1950 in the Korean War. This location, Dabu-Dong, was the site of a particularly aggressive North Korean push south. (Visit in Google Maps.)  

About an hour drive north of former President Chun's birthplace, and in the northern outskirts of Daegu, is the birthplace of President Roh. I shared the space with a fair number of other visitors, indicating that Roh must be a tad more popular than Chun. (Visit in Google Maps.)  

Former President Chun Doo-Hwan is probably the most controversial of recent Korean heads of state. Even many of those who liked his predecessor Park Jung-Hee (also a dictator) don't have the same affection for Chun. Thus, it seemed fitting that his birthplace would be low key and that I would...

It hasn't changed much since our visit in 2012, which you can see here, here and here. I'd gone hoping to find a few spots from more recent shows, but I should have done my homework first to find out that those were mostly filmed in Suncheon and Suweon. (Visit in...

I was unable to go in and look around because the sign says they're doing construction. Fortunately, the walls around were short enough that I could hold my camera up for some photos. (Visit in Google Maps.) 

On my way to my next destination, I came across this spot, which was a key battleground in defending the Korean peninsula when the Japanese invaded in 1592. It is also said that a prophecy in the 19th century said that three very rich men would come from the area...

A short distance from the old Jisu Elementary School is this spot which showed on my GPS as being in the vicinity of the birthplace of Ku In-Hui, the founder of the LG Group. I read that the family hasn't opened up the location to tourists, so I was unable...

Ever since reading that the founders of both LG and Samsung attended the same elementary school together back in the 1920s or so and that the school is still standing, I've wanted to visit. It turns out the building's still there but it was closed in 2009, then merged with...