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City Andong Hahoe Village
"A six-hundred-year-old clan village wrapped in a river bend where wooden manors smell of woodsmoke."
Water Baengnyeongdo
"Towering quartzite sea cliffs standing guard on the western maritime border facing North Korea."
Wilderness Boseong
"Razor-straight rows of tea bushes draping mist-choked hillsides in impossibly vivid green."
Water Busan
"Fish markets the size of aircraft hangars spilling onto beaches backed by neon-lit cliff temples."
Mountain Buseoksa
"A seventh-century wooden temple looking out over a vast ocean of mountain ridges."
City Buyeo
"A ruined Baekje capital where lotus flowers choke the pond of a fallen empire."
Water Cheongsando
"Stone-walled terraced fields sloping toward the sea on an island that mandates slow living."
Wilderness Cheorwon
"Rusted trains and crane migration routes trapped inside the heavily militarised northern border zone."
Wilderness Damyang
"Bamboo stalks thick as tree trunks clicking together in the wind, blocking out the sky."
Mountain Deokgu Onsen
"Korea's only natural surface hot spring steaming quietly at the bottom of a frozen gorge."
Water Gageodo
"The absolute southwestern edge of the country where brutal sea cliffs vanish into permanent fog."
Wilderness Gochang Dolmen Site
"Hundreds of massive prehistoric stone tombs scattered silently through a valley of pine and bamboo."
City Gunsan
"Faded wooden merchant houses frozen in time from the 1930s Japanese occupation era in a quiet port town."
City Gyeongju
"Grassy burial mounds the size of hills looming silently over a modern grid of streets."
Mountain Hallasan
"A dormant shield volcano holding a crater lake, dominating an island built of its lava."
Water Heuksando
"An island famous for switchback coastal roads and fermented skate fish that burns the eyes."
Water Homigot
"A giant bronze hand reaching out of the freezing ocean surf to catch the sunrise."
Water Hongdo
"An island of sheer red sandstone cliffs that glow like fire at sunset."
Mountain Hwangmaesan
"An alpine plain exploding with pink royal azaleas in spring and silver grass in autumn."
Wilderness Inje Wondae-ri Birch Forest
"Tens of thousands of white birch trunks blinding against waist-deep winter snowfields."
Water Jeju
"Haenyeo grandmothers diving without oxygen into volcanic shallows to harvest sea urchins by hand."
Mountain Jeongseon
"Abandoned mining railways pedalled by tourists through dark mountain tunnels and deep river gorges."
City Jeonju
"Hundreds of swooping slate roofs hiding courtyard guesthouses and ferociously complex fermented feasts."
Water Jeungdo
"Checkerboard salt pans stretching to the horizon, reflecting clouds over an island of mudflats."
Mountain Jirisan
"A sprawling massif where black bears roam and hikers sleep in crowded ridge-top shelters."
Water Marado
"A treeless speck of volcanic rock serving black bean noodles at the country's edge."
Wilderness Maryang-ri
"A five-hundred-year-old forest of camellia trees bleeding red flowers against the grey winter sea."
Wilderness Muju
"Thousands of fireflies illuminating a pitch-black valley on humid, heavy summer nights."
Mountain Mungyeong Saejae
"Three stone gates guarding a dirt mountain pass that Joseon scholars walked to the capital."
City Museom Village
"Timber houses reached only by a bending log bridge over a wide, sandy river."
City Naganeupseong
"A walled fortress town where smoke still rises from hundreds of inhabited thatched roofs."
Water Namhae Daraengi
"Hand-carved rice terraces falling down a sheer cliff to crash into the southern ocean."
City Paju
"An entire architectural metropolis built solely for publishing, reading, and storing paper."
Mountain Saryangdo
"A terrifying suspension bridge swaying between two knife-edge volcanic peaks surrounded by the southern sea."
Mountain Seonunsa Temple
"A temple valley erupting in blood-red spider lilies every autumn beneath jagged rock walls."
Mountain Seoraksan
"Granite needles stabbing through autumn clouds in a hyper-saturated ridgescape of crimson and gold."
City Seoul
"Midnight street food steaming under neon alleys beside fourteenth-century palace gates."
City Sokcho
"North Korean refugee grandmothers stuffing squid with noodles in a misty, sea-battered port town."
City Suwon
"An intact eighteenth-century fortress wall wrapping five kilometres around a bustling modern metropolis."
Water Tongyeong
"A harbour choked with squid boats beneath a cable car climbing into coastal clouds."
Water Udo
"Black lava shores contrasting with blinding white sand and peanut farms swept by sea wind."
Wilderness Uljin Geumgang Pine Forest
"A heavily restricted royal timber reserve where centuries-old red pines grow straight toward the sky."
Mountain Ulleungdo
"A jagged volcanic caldera rising from the East Sea, reachable only by stomach-churning ferry."
Mountain Wolchulsan
"A bright orange suspension bridge swaying ninety metres above a jagged granite gorge."
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