What word comes to your mind when you think of forsythia, azalea or rape flowers? Spring! Among these flowers, maehwa is the most famous for notifying the start of spring. Even though I was busy during the start of the new semester, I wanted to feel the mood when spring comes so I went to Maesil Farm, located in Gwangyang-si, Jeollanam-do.♣ Maesil FarmMaesil Farm is located beside Sumjin River. Approximately 100,000 trees are planted in the land space of 300,000 pyeong, and 400,000 people visit here every year. Maehwa flowers come into full bloom in March, making a beautiful scene for visitors
"The train will soon be arriving at Seoul Station. Passengers getting off at Seoul, thank you for riding with us today, and have a pleasant trip." Through this train announcement, my trip started. The subway ticket from Seoul Station to Ungil-san Station was quite expensive. However, full of new hope, I started my trip to a new place. I transferred at Yong-san Station and approximately one hour later, I finally arrived at Ungil-san Station. I was shocked when I got off the subway and saw the huge scale of Ungil-san Station. It is one of the biggest subway stations I have ever seen. I was surpr
Falling in Love with a “Young world”(“Young World” is the slogan of Yeongwol-gun) Yeongwol-gun is an area of culture with beautiful natural resources and cultural remains. It's located in southern Gangwon-do. I visited Yeongwol-gun from November 1 to 2. The maple leaves were awesome and still colorful even at the end of fall. Let's look around Yeongwol-gun's famous places: Seonam village, Cheongryeongpo, Gwanpungheon, and Jangneung. Seonam village is popular because it's shaped like the Korean peninsula (Hanban-do). Seogang River's clean water flows around Seonam village. It is similar to the
On National Foundation Day, I, one of the Gazette reporters, left for Provence Village in Paju, Gyeonggi Province. At first, I found the place through Internet surfing and got attracted to the picturesque scenery. If you like to take pictures, I highly recommend you visit Provence Village and photograph the beautiful buildings there.Paju Provence Village is modeled on Provence Village in France, and it was built in a sequestered country village in 1996. It started from a French restaurant. As time went by, many other things started to appear in Provence Village. There are ten buildings in Prov
In August, the prime month of summer, I took a bus bound for Sunchang-gun, Jeollabuk-do to reach Mt. Gangcheon. It was so hard for me to bear such a dull time of three hours in the bus. However, when I arrived in Mt. Gangcheon, fresh air was waiting for me. Mt. Gangcheon is the first county park, located on the edge of Sunchang-gun, and it has various shapes and sizes of rocks, beautiful green forests, clean water, beautiful and cool valleys all of which are enough for us to call it the Geumgang of Honam. When I started to climb the mountain, what I saw at first was a big waterfall called ‘Bye
Gyeongju, located not so far from Daegu, is famous as the city of culture and tourism. Gyeongju, the capital of Silla, has many historic relics which reveal the glorious civilization of Silla at that time. Among them, Seokguram Grotto, designated by UNESCO as a cultural heritage site, is mostly known to people. In Gyeongju, there are not only historic relics but also many tourist attractions like Bomun Lake Resort and Gyeongju World Culture Expo Park. Especially, it is famous for its cycling date tour course through a cherry blossom street at Bomun Lake Resort. You can also tour historic relic
From April 1 to 13, the 46th "Jinhae Gunhang Festival," was held in Jinhae City, which is also famous for its cherry blossoms. The origin of the festival goes back to April 13, 1952, when a statue of Admiral Lee Sun-shin was erected in his memory at Bukwon Rotary.Since 1963, annual memorial ceremonies have been held to commemorate his patriotic spirit, and it has become one of the typical spring events in the Jinhae festival. On April 4, to enjoy the festival and cherry blossoms, I took the last train to Jinhae. As soon as I disembarked from the train, I found Jinhae's beautiful cherry blossom
These days, as the world is increasingly globalized, cooperation between countries is becoming very important. According to that kind of atmosphere, international exhibitions and conferences are at the very center of globalization. In Daegu, there is EXCO, which opened in April 2001.EXCO is the abbreviation of "Exhibition and Convention Center," and it is located in the north of Daegu. It has an advantage of traffic because it is connected to Daegu Airport, KTX, and Gyeongbu expressway. It is also the first exhibition and convention center outside Seoul. Therefore, it is very meaningful to Dae
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