Walking Out to Noo-eh Island from Daebu Island at Low Tide
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At and Around Namsan Park
Namsan Park is a major landmark of Seoul, but having visiting a month or two after arriving in Korea back in 1994, I never came back… until we visited with the family a couple weeks ago. The old castle wall of Seoul crossed over this mountain, and just about anything...
Walking Along the Chirisan Doollae-Gil (4 of 10) – Drinking by Day and Night
When we arrived in Namwon on Day 1, we stopped for 추어탕 for lunch, and enjoyed it with a bottle of 복분자. Of course, our 삼겹쌀 dinner included 막걸리 and 소주. On Day 2, we stopped for 막걸리 and 파전 at this rest stop which had been featured in 1박2일...
Walking Along the Chirisan Doollae-Gil (2 of 10) – Birthplace of Korean Classical Music
Apparently Korean classical music started in this area too, and there's a garden here to commemorate it, located right next to the Hwangsan Battle Memorial Site.
Family History Tour 2012 (20 of 22): Cheollanamdo, Korea Poonggyeong Pension
Just driving down a country road looking for a place to stay, we came across this place, which may be the nicest inn we’ve ever stayed at in Korea. The grounds showed the price of ownership of the proprietors. Korea Poonggyeong Pension [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://www.xn--289a1mj38gvxa.kr/] (Visit in Google Maps.)
Family History Tour 2012 (14 of 22): Heuksan Island, Taxi Drive Around the Island
The buses that runs the circuit road around the island only go every hour or two, it would have taken forever to get to all the places we might want to see by public transport. So we hired a taxi tour guide to take us around and really liked taking...
Family History Tour 2012 (7 of 22): Haeui Island, Around the Island
Haeui Island is a beautiful place. From coastline to mountains to rice paddies to mud flats, there's a little of everything. I think I could definitely enjoy living in a place like this as long as I can get an Internet connection. (Visit in Google Maps.)
Family History Tour 2012 (6 of 22): Haeui Island, Birthplace of Korean President Kim Dae-Jung
Last year, we visited the birthplaces of former Korean presidents Kim-Young Sam and Roh Moo-Hyun. Those were easy to get to; to reach President Kim Dae-Jung's birthplace, we had to take a boat from Mokpo in the afternoon to the remote island of Haeui and return the next day on...
Trip to Yeosu Expo 2012 (7 of 12): Haein Temple, Around the Grounds
The history of Haein Temple goes back over 1,000 years and is best known for housing 80,000+ printing tiles of the Buddhist Tripitaka.
