Boseoksa Temple in Geumsan — The Flower That Never Meets Its Own Leaves, a 1,000-Year-Old Tree, and Why I Arrived One Week Too Late

Boseoksa Temple main building with traditional bronze bell in Geumsan

There’s a flower in Korea that blooms without leaves. When the leaves are there, the flower is gone. They share the same stem but never exist at the same time — and that’s why Koreans call it one of the saddest flowers in the country. I went to a rural temple in Geumsan to see … Read more