Destination: Children’s Grand Park (Seoul, South Korea)
Opened on May 5, 1973, Children’s Grand Park covers 560,000 square meters (over six million square feet, or 138 acres) and is dedicated (obviously) to children. The area originally held the grave of the wife of King Sunjong, the last emperor of the Joseon...
Destination: Baekje stone tombs (Seoul, South Korea)
The Baekje stone tombs comprise a nice portion of history – even though there isn’t much to see / interact with. That there’s anything left of a 1500 year old kingdom – at the earliest! – deserves mention. The story begins a long time ago...
Destination: Namsangol Hanok Village – a look to the past (Seoul, South Korea)
Welcome to Namsangol Hanok (Traditional) Village – home to several homes belonging to Koreans from the past. From commoners to queens, these restored houses represent Korea’s past pretty well. It’s an excellent job showing life, and doesn’t...
Destination: Jeoldusan Martyrs Shrine / Seoul Foreigners Cemetary (South Korea)
Jeoldusan Martyrs Shrine and the Foreign Missionary Cemetary both have a place in honoring the dead. Solemn and quiet, this place is available to those interesting in honoring the dead, or simply to learn more about their sacrifices. The New York Times reviews some of...
Destination: Seoul Museum of History
With a name like the Seoul Museum of History, you think to know exactly what you’ll find inside. It’s only once you go inside that you find something completely different. Of course it’s a museum, and of course it’s about Seoul. It’s also...
Destination: Jongmyo royal shrine (Seoul, South Korea)
Jongmyo is more than your average royal shrine (not that there are many of those around to begin with). This place serves as the royal shrine for the Joseon Dynasty, which lasted from 1392-1910. Here their spirits are kept for any number of auspicious reasons, and...
Destination: Pyeongchang Ice / Trout Festival (South Korea)
All credit to finding our way around goes to Hun Ji once again – figuring out the buses around rural Korea took some figuring out between the two of us! One of our stops during seolnal (the Lunar New Year) was the Pyeongchang Ice Festival. One of several winter...Exploring rural Korea: Jeungpyeong, Cheongju, and a winter wonderland (South Korea)
The Lunar New Year offers Koreans a nice four day weekend – not including Friday night! – so needless to say, I was off to travel. My good friend Hun Ji would play tour guide, since we would be headed to some rural parts of Korea – the sort of places...
Destination: Jeungpyeong / Chungju (South Korea)
Jeungpyeong and Chungju are a couple rural areas of central Korea a couple hours from Seoul – not usually areas that make up a waygukin’s (foriegner’s) journey across Korea, but interesting areas nonetheless. Why come to these rural areas? My friend...
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