Geumosan Cable Car: A 1974 Open-Air Ride Up Korea’s First Provincial Park

Close-up of the open-air Geumosan cable car arriving at the lower station, showing its vintage 1974 design

Geumosan sits at 976 meters above sea level, and hiking to the summit takes over two hours on steep, rocky terrain. On a hot Korean summer day with a toddler in tow, that was never going to happen. But the Geumosan cable car gets you to the midway point of the mountain — near a … Read more