A hillside neighbourhood of brightly painted houses stacked up the slopes above Busan's port, once a refugee settlement, now full of murals, art installations and cafés. Follow the map of the art trail.
Busan also has Haeundae Beach, the Jagalchi fish market, and the Haedong Yonggungsa temple on the rocks by the sea. Busan is 2.5 hours from Seoul by KTX.
Gyeongju was the capital of the Silla kingdom for nearly a thousand years and is called 'the museum without walls'.
Many Buddhist temples in Korea offer templestays of one or two nights, where you join monks for early morning chanting, meditation, a tea ceremony an…
A traditional village of tiled and thatched houses in a bend of the Nakdong River, still lived in by the Ryu clan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A volcanic island off the south coast, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with Hallasan, South Korea's highest mountain (1,947 m), lava tubes such as the …
A fortress wall built in the late 18th century around the centre of Suwon, nearly 6 km long, with gates, watchtowers and bastions, a UNESCO World Her…
One of the oldest and largest traditional markets in Korea, opened in 1905, with rows of food stalls where you sit on benches to eat bindaetteok (mun…
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