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Along the Trail, Day 1 A Place for the Night in Sedong Village Along the Trail, Day 2 The Sancheong-Hamyang Incident Memorial The Bus Ride Back Cheonju Hanok Village
I've become a bit of a Korean history buff lately and so our walk out from Donggang Village was particularly interesting to me. The road actually follows the path of a raid by South Korean forces on a February morning in 1952 on four villages, killing about 700 villagers as...
It was another couple hours to reach Donggang Village, the end of Course #4 on the Chirisan Doollae-Gil. (Visit in Google Maps.)
I had not anticipated that everywhere would still be closed for the winter. We were lucky to find a place to stay and it took about four hours for the heater to warm the room up. (Visit in Google Maps.)
I had such a great time with Jake Kim in November walking along the Chirisan Doollae-Gil that with just over a week until the spring semester starts up again at school, Myunghee and I headed down for another couple days on the path. We started at the same point Jake...
Western missionaries founded this church in 1900. What's striking about it is that the outside is designed in a Korean traditional style, while the inside looks like a Western church. (Visit in Google Maps.)
Every palace needs a fortress to protect it and this is the north gate area of the fortress that surrounds the Goryo Palace and other important spots for the royals on Ganghwa Island for many years. From the top of the hill, we could see where the Yeomha Strait meets...
This spot was the capital of Goryo for while during the 1200s while the main capital at Gaeseong was being overrun by Mongols. It was also attacked by the Chinese in the 1600s. Not much is left, including the national library from which the French took what they could and...
This market on the edge of the main urban area on Ganghwa Island opens every five days. We just happened to show up on the day it was open. As they say, "가는 날이 장 날이다" (It's always market day when one visits.) This Korean saying normally has the nuance...
