Category: Seongpo-Dong

Haemi Christian Martyrs Memorial

After the 2010 South Choongcheong Province International Tourism Conference in August, we headed out to the Taean peninsula to visit the Cheollipo Arboretum. Along the way, we passed by the tower shown in the photo below and it looked interesting enough to stop and take a look. Turns out this...

My First Hike Up Suam Peak in a Long Time

Considering how much we  enjoy climbing Nojeok Hill, you'd think we'd be more interested in taking the next step and climbing the peaks of Suri Mountain, which is only a fifteen-minute bus ride from our neighborhood. We finally went this afternoon. Besides getting caught in a rainstorm halfway up, it...

The Cheollipo Arboretum (1)

When I told my professor at Hanyang University that I was heading down to Yesan in August for the 2010 South Choongcheong Province International Tourism Academic Conference, he suggested we take a side-trip up the Taean peninsula to visit the Cheollipo Arboretum [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://www.chollipo.org/]. (Click here to visit...

The Warriors Who Saved Santa Claus

The Warriors Who Saved Santa Claus

This is a little out of season but as I was cleaning the files out of our old Flip camera before lending it to a colleague so that he can prepare new content for us over at Korea Business Central, I came across a few videos that the kids created...

A New Family Dynasty in the Making in Ansan, Korea

According to an article in CNN today [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/09/28/north.korea.kims.son/index?hpt=T2], Kim Jong-Un, the third son of  Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il and grandson of Great Leader Kim-Il Sung, was just named Vice Chairman of the Workers Party of North Korea’s central military commission. In this way, the process of family...