Stories from this area

FitTrip NOW reads the work, memory, and everyday life behind familiar destinations.

• 🚶Jingwan-dong & Eunpyeong Hanok VillageFrom Jingwansa Temple to the Eunpyeong History & Hanok Museum: The Complete Half-Day Route
• 🚧Jingwan-dong & Eunpyeong Hanok VillageLand Where Nothing Could Be Built for 30 Years
• 💳Jingwan-dong & Eunpyeong Hanok VillageThey Bought the Land, But Couldn't Get a Mortgage
• 🏯Jingwan-dong & Eunpyeong Hanok VillageThirty Years of Development Restrictions Behind a Photogenic Village
• 🏗️Jingwan-dong & Eunpyeong Hanok VillageWhat a State-Designed "Hanok Village" Experiment Left Behind
• 🏛️Jinnamgwan1591–1599. The largest surviving single-story wooden building in Korea stands where Yi Sun-sin spent his last nights before going to war
• 🌳Jinpo Maritime Theme Park1380. The world's first gunpowder naval battle — roughly 200 years before Europe's
• 📍Jirisan Dulle-gil, Gurye Section, Sandong-myeon, Gurye, Jeollanam-doThe 274 km Jirisan Dulle-gil Linking Five Municipalities
• ⛰️Jirisan National Park, Hwaeomsa Branch OfficeJirisan, Korea’s First National Park in 1967
• 🕯️Jo Gwang-jo's Exile and the Jeokryeoyuheobi Monument1519 (same year) to 1667 (King Hyeonjong, year 8). A moment of relief at having been spared death proved short-lived, as the place of exile became his final resting place after all
• 🔔JongnoBefore Jongno Was a Place Name, It Was Seoul’s Business Hours
• 🌙JongnoFrom Bell Chimes to Stone Paths: An Evening Walk Through Jongno
• 🏘️JongnoIkseon-dong’s Hanok Were Urban Housing, Not Aristocratic Homes
• 🖌️JongnoInsadong Is Not a Place That Sells Tradition, but a District Trying to Protect Traditional Trades
• 🎸JongnoInstruments Above the Road, Goldsmithing Beside Jongmyo
• 🕯️JongnoJongmyo Is Most Royal Because It Is Not Ornate
• 🚶JongnoStart Here on Your First Visit: A 100-Minute Introduction to Jongno
• 🛤️JongnoThe Alley That Avoided Horses Could Not Avoid Development
• 🔔JongnoThe Bell That Opened and Closed Seoul’s Day
• ✊JongnoTwo Declarations Moved at Once in Tapgol Park
• 📍Juknokwon and the Changpyeong Slow City2003 (Juknokwon) and 2007 (Changpyeong Slow City). A bamboo grove nearly abandoned to disuse and a fading traditional confectionery village each received a new name in the 2000s
• 🏛️Kim Chang-jo and the Gayageum Sanjo Memorial HallLate 19th century–2014. Behind the name of one pioneer stood several first-generation musicians
• 🏛️Kim Cheol Memorial HallA Shanghai Provisional Government Building Recreated at Home
• 📍Kim Yeong-nang's Birth House and "Until the Peonies Bloom"1903 (birth of Kim Yeong-nang)–1934. The peonies a poet planted in his garden became one of modern Korea's most beloved poems
• 🧭Konkuk University and Hwayang-dongKonkuk University and Hwayang-dong — Story 1
• 🚶Konkuk University and Hwayang-dongKonkuk University and Hwayang-dong — Story 10
• 📦Konkuk University and Hwayang-dongKonkuk University and Hwayang-dong — Story 2
• 🚆Konkuk University and Hwayang-dongKonkuk University and Hwayang-dong — Story 3
• 🧺Konkuk University and Hwayang-dongKonkuk University and Hwayang-dong — Story 4
• 🏘️Konkuk University and Hwayang-dongKonkuk University and Hwayang-dong — Story 5
• ⚖️Konkuk University and Hwayang-dongKonkuk University and Hwayang-dong — Story 6
• 🌊Konkuk University and Hwayang-dongKonkuk University and Hwayang-dong — Story 7
• 🏢Konkuk University and Hwayang-dongKonkuk University and Hwayang-dong — Story 8
• 🎭Konkuk University and Hwayang-dongKonkuk University and Hwayang-dong — Story 9
• 📍Lee Cheong-jun's BirthplaceA Sound Heard in the Village Became a Novel
• ⛰️Living heritage and the Slow RoadDecember 1, 2007. Cheongsan Island joined Asia's first group of Cittaslow communities
• 🚌Madu-dong and Baekseok-dong, Ilsandong-gu, GoyangMadu and Baekseok: Mobility, Not the Lake, Organized the New Town
• 🌳Maechang ParkYi Mae-chang, a Poet Remembered Beyond Status
• 📍Maecheon Hwang Hyeon heritage in GuryeHwang Hyeon’s Final Poems after Korea Lost Sovereignty
• 🛕Maecheonsa ShrineMaecheonsa, the Shrine Honoring Hwang Hyeon
• 🛤️Majeong-ri, Munsan-eup, Paju, Gyeonggi-doImjingang Station and Imjingak: When Permission Becomes Distance
• 🌊Mangwon-dongMangwon Hangang Park Is More Than a Lawn with a River View
• 🛒Mangwon-dongMangwon Market Was a Residents' Shopping Basket Before It Became a Food Route
• 🏯Mangwon-dongWhy Mangwonjeong Pavilion Stands Slightly Away from Its Original Site
• 🚶Mangwoo-ri ParkA Hill Walked Together by Mourners and Hikers
• 📜Mangwoo-ri ParkA Resting Place Designated by the Colonial Government
• 🪦Mangwoo-ri ParkBefore It Was a Scenic Trail, This Was a Cemetery
• 🪞Mangwoo-ri ParkDoes Renaming a Place Actually Erase Its Stigma?
• 🧭Mangwoo-ri ParkFinding a Name Among the Nameless Graves
• ⛰️Mangwoo-ri ParkForty Years of an Entire Hillside Filling With the Dead
• 🏷️Mangwoo-ri ParkFrom Cemetery, to Cemetery Park, to Historical & Cultural Park
• 🚶Mangwoo-ri ParkFrom the Entrance to the Contemplation Trail: The Complete Half-Day Route
• 🍂Mangwoo-ri ParkGrave-Visiting Season and Foliage Season Draw Completely Different Crowds
• ✍️Mangwoo-ri ParkMore Than 130 Independence Fighters and Cultural Figures Rest Here
• 🛕Manilsa Temple, Gurim-myeon, Sunchang, Jeollabuk-doA Tradition That Muhak Prayed for Yi Seong-gye
• 📍Manin-uichong (Mound of Ten Thousand) and the Battle of Namwon1597. Where 4,000 people held off 56,000 until they were wiped out, 10,000 graves remain
• 🛕Manyeonsa Temple1208 (King Huijong of Goryeo, year 4). A single dream, dreamed during a brief nap, became the beginning of a temple that has endured for more than 800 years
• 🕊️May 18th Memorial Park and Sangmu DistrictFrom a Perpetrator's Ground to a Place of Comfort
• 🕯️May 18th National CemeteryNames Once Hauled Away in Garbage Trucks
• 🏛️Midang Poetry Literary MuseumLiterary Achievement Alongside Collaboration and Dictatorship Controversies