South Korea Travel Journal

Any travel journals I post about my time in South Korea are linked below. There are also location index pages for each city/town I visit in South Korea. This page aggregates all of the posts that are also linked in those subsidiary indices.

This South Korea index is a sub-index of the Asia index.

Namdaemun Market and More

I didn’t leave the Seoul Botanic Garden this morning until close to noon. It’s a bit out from the core of the city, so it...

Seoul Botanic Park

I typically greatly enjoy botanical gardens. Hence, if there’s one in a city I’m visiting and I’m there during a season when the flora is...

National Museum of Korea

Still in Seoul, I spent the better part of the morning, and a bit more, in the National Museum of Korea. For definitional purposes, I...

Cheonggyecheon Stream and More

I had read about Seoul’s Cheonggyecheon Stream even before I’d considered coming to Korea. In fact, while I can’t remember what led me to choose...

Doing the DMZ (Part One)

I think that when you visit Seoul, you have to visit the DMZ. As far as I know, there’s no law requiring it. It’s just...

Seoul Forest and Hangang Park

This afternoon in Seoul, I visited two parks, Seoul Forest and Hangang Park. There’s not much to report on that. So this should, theoretically, be...