Tagged: Around Korea

What to Expect The view from the forst fire observation station is fantastic. And don’t miss the Sancheong-Hamyang Incident Memorial if you have any interest in Korean history around the time of the Korean War. Getting There Take the bus from elsewhere in the country to Hamyang and then a...

What to Expect This section should be named “the river course” and it’s one of my favorites with great views throughout. On the other hand, I went with Myunghee and she wasn’t impressed at all, so perhaps it wasn’t as nice as I remember. Getting There Take the bus from...

What to Expect This section is really long, and it takes even longer if stopping at various places for food and drink. Fortunately, it’s not necessary to do the whole thing at once as there are also plenty of homestays along the way, not just at the end points. Getting...

What to Expect This is a very easy course and about midway through and side-by-side are an ancient battle site and a museum of Korean traditional music, which was supposedly first developed here. Both are worth a brief stop to look around. Getting There Bus from elsewhere in the country...

Korean War Memorial to the Battle of Osan Osan Five-Day Market At Mallipo Beach Chollipo Botanical Gardens Mobile Cash Machine Taean White Lilly Festival Taxpayer-Funded Walking Bridge Anmyeon Island Pension

This just impressed me with its audacity. It's a walking bridge from nowhere to nowhere that connects the (non) island of Anmyeon with the mainland. It's still under construction but I wonder how many people will be walking across this when it opens… (Visit in Google Maps.)

Nothing like a mobile cash machine out in the Korean boondocks to get a US credit card advance…