Tagged: Around Korea

Belly Dancers at the Conference in Yesan

At the recent 2010 South Chungcheong Province International Tourism Conference in Yesan, based on the number of people at lunch on the last day in the second photo below, I'd say there were 500+ people… But take a look at the number of people attending the academic presentation in the...

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...

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...

Myunghee’s Trip to Somewhere

I’m not sure where all they went, but Myunghee and a friend joined a busload of people from the neighborhood heading down south for the day. They visited this mountain creek area and then made it to the Geumsan Ginseng Festival ([EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://www.geumsan.go.kr:8080/festival/autumn/2008/index.jsp]) where Myunghee picked up some...

Jeju Island Trip – Our Pension

I'm not sure why Koreans call this form of accommodation a "Pension" but we picked out a nice place… It even had high-speed wireless Internet… which worked for all the Koreans but mysteriously, wouldn't connect to any of the three US-bought laptops we had with us. We never figured it...