Jeju Canola Festival
The Jeju Canola Festival signals the start of spring, with magnificent views of broad fields covered with bright yellow canola flowers.
Seoul announced official spring flower trails
Seoul announced official spring flower trails The pathway along the Anyangcheon Stream in Yeongdeungpo-gu District, Seoul, offers some of the most beautiful cherry blossom walking trails every April. Spring has sprung. The flower buds have started to bloom and warm and sunnier weather has arrived. In Seoul, forsythia and azalea are expected to fully…
Jinhae Gunhangje Festival
Every April, the town of Jinhae in Gyeongsangnam-do Province is covered by cherry blossoms. Its streets with 100-year-old buildings turn white and pink with cherry blossom tunnels and raining petals.
Culinary delights of Gangwon-do: Chodang tofu serves up natural bean taste
Culinary delights of Gangwon-do: Chodang tofu serves up natural bean taste “My restaurant is not an eatery that serves fancy food.” Kim Hun-hoi runs the Wonjo Chodang Sundubu restaurant (원조초당순두부), a third-generation family business in Gangneung, Gangwon-do Province, that serves a wide range of tofu dishes, known locally as chodang sundubu(초당순두부). When he…
Culinary delight of Gangwon-do: freeze-dried pollack
Culinary delight of Gangwon-do: freeze-dried pollack “We’re all ready to serve during next year’s Olympic Games.” Kim Sunyeol runs Hwangtae Hoegwan (황태회관), one of the time-honored hwangtae (황태) restaurants in Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do Province. The town of Pyeongchang is one of the three host cities for next year’s 2018 PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic…
Korea’s biggest cherry blossom festival
Korea’s biggest cherry blossom festival A famous writer once said, “I dream of standing under trees while cherry blossom petals fall all around me.” Well, it’s that time of the year when cherry blossom trees are about to bloom. Yes, spring is coming. Seeing cherry blossom festivals is a big dream of many…
Seoul’s vertical metropolis awaits grand opening
Seoul’s vertical metropolis awaits grand opening Lotte World Tower’s Sky Deck observation platform, 478 meters from the ground on the 118th floor, offers surreal views of Seoul’s cityscape, as miniature cars move along streets that connect clusters of blocks that give shape to a bustling city. A “vertical metropolis” is the term coined for…
Maehwa apricot blossoms welcome spring
Maehwa apricot blossoms welcome spring The Wondong Maehwa Festival, held in Yangsan-si, Gyeongsangnam-do Province, will welcome guests with maehwa apricot flowers on March 18 and 19 this year. In Seoul, people are still wearing thick coats and scarves to block out the cold wind, but in the southern parts of the Korean Peninsula,…
Gangneung, a city of skating, coffee
Gangneung, a city of skating, coffee The Gyeongpo branch of Bohemian Roasters is located next to the Gangneung Ice Arena, the venue that will play host to the skating events at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games next year. The coffee shop was filled with visitors during the ISU Four Continents…
Spring has sprung along Jeju’s canola trails
Spring has sprung along Jeju’s canola trails At the Seogwipo Yuchae Canola Flower International Walking Festival, held in Seogwipo-si, Jeju Island, on March 18 and 19, participants can walk on 5-km, 10-km or 15-km trails that weave through the island’s blooming fields of canola flowers. The trails connect several tourist attractions along the…