Geumsan Day Trip: Ginseng Fields, River Views and Fish Porridge

Eojuk (freshwater fish porridge) served bubbling in a stone pot at Gangbyeon Garden, Geumsan

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