In 660 AD, as enemy forces stormed through the gates of a royal capital, the court women of the fallen Baekje Kingdom climbed to the edge of a riverside cliff and stepped off rather than face capture. Their billowing robes, witnesses said, looked like flower petals scattering in the wind. The cliff was named Nakhwaam … Read more
After the observatory views and the fish porridge, I thought the day in Geumsan was done. But my phone showed a bookshop café on the second floor of an old market building in town, and since we had time before the drive home, I figured it was worth a look. What I found at Durumi … Read more
I’ve been to Geumsan more times than I can count — always for the food, always by car, always leaving with the same thought: this place doesn’t need to try hard. It’s a small farming county in the hills south of Daejeon, known across Korea as the ginseng capital (about 80% of the country’s ginseng … Read more