Stories from this area

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

• 🛕The Cost of Hillside Life in Ihwa-dong and Chungsin-dongA Scenic Hill Is a Staircase Someone Climbs Every Day
• 🏛️The Eulmi Incident and the Politics of MemoryJangchungdan Was a State Memorial Altar Before It Became a Park Name
• 📍The F1 Korean Grand Prix and the Korea International Circuit2010–2013. An international race that launched with a seven-year commitment quietly vanished from the calendar after just four
• 🚉The Floating Pier (Bujangyo) and Jjaebo Landing1920s. A bridge that once carried rice out to sea — now a sunset spot
• 🛕The Founding of Dogapsa TempleLate Unified Silla (Master Doseon, 827–898). A small branch temple from the end of the Silla period grew, by the early Joseon era, into a grand complex of 966 rooms
• 📍The founding of the Sorokdo Charity Hospital and the forced isolation of Hansen's disease patients1916 (Ordinance No. 7 of the Japanese Government-General of Korea). On an island where people were forcibly brought and confined, a history of human rights violations began
• 📍The Gurim DaedonggyeEstimated 1565–1580 (Joseon, reigns of King Myeongjong and King Seonjo). A self-governance charter that villagers created more than 400 years ago survives to this day, recording even bridge repairs and road maintenance
• 🏛️The Gurim Pottery Kiln Sites and the Yeongam Pottery Museum1987 and 1996 (excavation surveys). Korea's earliest glazed pottery is now displayed again on the grounds of a shuttered school
• 🌳The Hangdong RailwayA City Arboretum Beside the Greenbelt
• 🚢The Hangdong RailwayA Name Borrowed From a Boat-Shaped Village
• 📸The Hangdong RailwayA Railway for Photographers, and an Old Tavern Road
• 🏘️The Hangdong RailwayBeside a Freight Railway, Where the Greenbelt Was Released
• 🛤️The Hangdong RailwayCalled "Abandoned." Never Actually Abandoned.
• 🚶The Hangdong RailwayFrom Korea's First Stations to a Greenbelt Housing District: The Complete Half-Day Route
• 🚉The Hangdong RailwayOne of Korea's Very First Train Stations
• 🕰️The Hangdong RailwayPhotographers' Weekends and Commuters' Weekdays
• 👷The Hangdong RailwayThe People Who Hauled Coal Briquettes and Steel
• ⚠️The Hangdong RailwayWhat the Word "Abandoned" Conceals
• 📍The Haui Island tenant farmer dispute and the Haui Three Islands peasant movementThe 1920s to 1956 (restitution after liberation). Island residents who refused to keep paying rents they could not afford fought for more than 30 years and eventually won back their land
• 🏛️The Haui Three Islands Peasant Movement Memorial Hall2009. A land-reclamation struggle that lasted more than 30 years was reborn as a memorial hall on the site of a closed school
• ⛰️The Historical Setting of The Taebaek Mountains, from the Yeosu-Suncheon Incident to the Korean War1948–1953. The five-year era a novel once depicted has since become a literary trail readers can walk in real life
• 📍The Hwasun Coal Mine1905 to 2023. 118 years after Korea's first modern coal mine opened, the lights in its final shaft went dark
• 🏯The Hwasun Dolmen SitesCirca 1000 BCE to 2000 CE (UNESCO inscription). Not a stadium, but an entire hillside, was once a massive Bronze Age burial quarry
• ⛰️The Korean War and Mount Baegasan1950–1952. A mountain that once served as the final stronghold of a wartime conflict now draws hikers crossing its sky bridge instead
• 📍The massacre of 84 people on Sorokdo IslandAugust 22, 1945 (immediately after liberation). People who demanded self-governance upon hearing news of liberation were met not with negotiation, but with weapons
• 🛕The Master Doseon and Master Sumi Stele at Dogapsa1636–1653 (Joseon). Two monks separated by nearly 800 years, one from Unified Silla and one from Joseon, came to share their names on a single monument
• ⛰️The Meeting of Dasan and Monk Hyejang1805. A Confucian scholar and a Buddhist monk became teachers to one another, separated only by a single mountain path
• 📍The Metasequoia Road1972 to the present. County residents protected 1,300 saplings planted by one magistrate from a road-widening plan
• 🚉the Naju Station IncidentOctober 30, 1929. An argument over a girl's braided hair at a train station became the spark for a nationwide anti-colonial movement
• 📍The National Theater of Korea in Jangchung-dongThe National Theater at the Foot of Namsan Put Traditional Arts on a State Stage
• 🏛️The Old Boseong Inn1935. An inn where fictional characters from a novel once stayed remains, in reality, standing in Beolgyo to this day
• 📍The Omado land reclamation project and its betrayal1962–1964. People who spent three years filling in the sea, trusting a promise that they would be resettled on the mainland, were driven off that very land just before it was completed
• ⛰️The only mountain located within a park of the seaJanuary 10, 2011. The former provincial park became the Goheung Palyeongsan District of Dadohae Haesang National Park
• 🚡The opening of Jeungdo Bridge2010. A single bridge turned a Slow City reachable only by boat into a place a car could reach directly from the mainland
• 🚡The opening of Sorok BridgeMarch 2, 2009. A single bridge turned an island reachable only by boat into a place a car could reach directly from the mainland
• 🏛️The opening of the Sorokdo National Hospital Hansen's Disease MuseumMay 17, 2016 (the 100th anniversary of the Charity Hospital's founding). On the very site where human rights violations began, a museum opened to document and share that history
• 📍The Origin of the Name "Boseong"757 (King Gyeongdeok of Silla, year 16). No one can say for certain why it was named this, yet the name itself has survived for nearly 1,300 years
• 📍The Origin of the Name "Damyang"1018 (King Hyeonjong of Goryeo, year 9). A land renamed three times across three dynasties finally received the name it carries today
• 📍The Origin of the Name "Yeongam"757 (King Gyeongdeok of Silla, year 16). A county once important enough to house a regional government office reverted to its old name once that office moved elsewhere
• 📍The Origins of Daehan Dawon and the Boseong Tea Fields1939–1940. A record from 1,600 years ago and a beginning from just over 80 years ago — two entirely different spans of time overlap in today's tea fields
• ⛰️The provincial park designation of Mount PalyeongsanJuly 30, 1998. Eight peaks encircling the archipelago like a folding screen were designated a provincial park
• 📍The Purple Island (Banwol and Bakji) project2015 (launch of the "Islands You Want to Visit" project) to 2019 (full rollout of the purple theme). Two islands, inspired by the color of local balloon flowers and self-heal blossoms, were transformed entirely into purple
• 📍The Reconstruction of Daehan Dawon's Tea Fields1957. Eight million trees planted by one businessman turned a mountainside stripped bare by war into today's green landscape
• 📍The Renaming of Neungju-mok1632 (Joseon, King Injo, year 10). A town elevated in status because it was the birthplace of a king's mother has since vanished, even in name, from the map
• 📍The Sijong-myeon Jar-Coffin Tomb ClusterMid-5th century onward (Mahan to Baekje). In a village that once sat astride the route linking the Yellow Sea to the interior, the Mahan people buried their dead inside large jars
• 📍The Sinan Shipwreck and its underwater relics1323 (Goryeo dynasty, King Chungsuk year 10; a Yuan-dynasty trading ship) to 1976 (discovery). A trading ship that had lain sunk beneath the sea for nearly 700 years surfaced when it caught in a fisherman's net
• 📍The state compensation ruling for Hansen's disease patients2014 (Gwangju High Court appellate ruling). People who had been forcibly operated on had the state's responsibility formally recognized in court, decades later
• ⛰️The Stupa of Master Cheolgam at Ssangbongsa Temple868 (King Gyeongmun of Silla, year 8). A monk who had studied abroad in Tang China chose, of all places, to settle here for the beauty of its landscape
• ⛰️The Taebaek Mountains Literature Museum2008. A stage that existed only within the pages of a novel became a walking tour led by the author himself
• ⛰️The Wando abalone aquaculture industry2000 (introduction of cage farming) to 2003 (surge in shipments). The sea that once held off pirates now raises abalone for tables across the nation
• 📍the Yeosu World Expo and Sky Tower2012. An abandoned cement factory became the symbol of a world expo
• 🌊the Yeosu-Suncheon Incident and Manseongri Black Sand Beach1948–1949. Beneath a black-sand beach lie 123 to 125 people who were killed without trial
• 📍The Yulpo Seawater Green Tea CenterPresent day (21st century). Two of Boseong's representative resources, seawater and green tea, meet in a single bathhouse
• 🚉Todang-dong and Neunggok-dong, Deogyang-gu, GoyangNeunggok Station: An Old Railway Town Joins the Airport Rail Region
• 🏘️Traditional Gochujang Folk VillageA Village That Gathered Sunchang’s Gochujang Artisans
• 🏘️Ttangkkeut Village and the Ttangkkeut Tower1987. A modern-era tower finally rose at the site a Joseon-era geographic text had already marked as the end of the country's land
• 🏯Ugeum FortressUgeumsanseong, a Leading Candidate for Juryuseong
• 🚈Ui-dongA Two-Car Light Railway Changed Ui-dong’s Sense of Distance
• 🙏Ui-dongAt Doseonsa, the Mountain Path Becomes a Temple Threshold
• ⛰️Ui-dongHow to Look Up at Baegundae from Bukhansan Ui