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City views with the mountains of Bukhansan National Park in the distance. Taken from the top of Namsan in Seoul, South Korea

Namsan

City views with the mountains of Bukhansan National Park in the distance. Taken from the top of Namsan in Seoul, South Korea
seoul from above

High above. Gaze out and over the city. Hundreds of buildings rise up- repeating patterns of grey and white blocks.

It feels bustling, even from here. Not far beyond: the soft blue of mountain silhouettes.

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Mt Palgong: Hiking into History

The rugged beauty of Korea

The rugged beauty of Korea

Going off an address that we had gleaned from the simultaneously vague and informative Palgong Provincial Park website, we set off in what we hoped was the general direction of some good hiking. The back roads from Waegwan wound themselves through villages with crooked brick bus stops and past fields of Continue reading →