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This is right on the border with North Korea. (Click here to visit in Google Maps.) I wasn't actually supposed to take the top photo but didn't notice the sign prohibiting photos in the direction of North Korea until after I'd take it. It's a marker that commemorates a battle...
One of the nice things about driving around the Korean countryside at random without a fixed itinerary is unexpectedly coming across gems along the way. The Korea DMZ Peace-Life Valley [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://dmzecopeace.com/eng/] right up near the DMZ focuses on educating visitors about the unspoilt nature within the DMZ,...
A highlight of each trip out of town is picking our place to stay for the night. There are many private inns (called "pensions" or "minbaks") in the best locations and we did already on our trip to Gangweon Province last week. (Click here to visit in Google Maps.)
We travelled down to the foothills around Chiri mountain on Saturday for a two-night templestay at Ssanggyesa Temple [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://www.ssanggyesa.net/]. (Click here to visit in Google Maps.)
Driving through the Gangweon countryside last weekend, we came across a field that had been freshly harvested of radishes. Those that weren't marketable got left, and some of them ended up in the trunk of our car and turned into 깍두기 when we got home!
This lake north of Hoengseong was created with a dam and some sentimental types managed to get a small museum built in this spot to remember the land that got flooded in the lake's creation. We arrived the day after a ceremony to commemorate a walking trail around the perimeter....
I really picked a nice place to stay in Mallipo and what was especially interesting to me was the keen interest the owners of the Pinocchio Pension [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://www.pinocchiopension.com/] have in former Korean President Park Chung Hee. In the cafe, they’ve displayed every issue of the quarterly newsletter...
The tides at Mallipo are exceptionally wide. Take a look at the contrast between the high tide in the top two photos and the low tide in the bottom two photos below. Wished I could have spent another month down at the beach, but alas, I had to come home…
We had a great event at Hwaseong in Suweon on Saturday, but afterwards, I was exhausted. On the spur of the moment, I decided to head to Mallipo (Click here to visit in Google Maps.) about two hours south of Seoul for a little quiet time of reflection. It’s not...
