Category: Travel journals
(Reading time: 2 minutes) I wrote the prologue while being slightly influenced by the book Children of Dune. If you’ve read Dune, you might agree that Frank Herbert’s sentence structure
DAY 18 (Reading time: 5 minutes) There is a general belief among taxi service customers that a taxi driver is a professional who knows at least a few words in
SPECIAL (Reading time: 2 minutes) The information about the attempted assassination of the South Korean president in 1968 (see the article The way is shut) is here supplemented with a
DAY 17 (Reading time: 7 minutes) If you wander through the very heart of Seoul—or ideally even one of its five palaces—you can’t help but notice “that crooked mountain” in
DAY 16 (Reading time: 3 minutes) After spending more than two weeks exploring various amazing places in South Korea, we returned to Seoul. We dedicated our afternoon to sacrificing funds
DAY 15 (Reading time: 5 minutes) At the end of January 2024, a mega-shopping center called Starfield opened in Suwon. It’s the fifth building of this popular chain in South
DAY 14 (Reading time: 5 minutes) The historic city of Suwon is surrounded by 5.74 kilometers of walls. The entire complex is known as Suwon Hwaseong Fortress. It was built
DAY 13 (Reading time: 6 minutes) The farewell with our host on the morning of our departure was conducted with a ritual that people probably have been practicing since this
SPECIAL (Reading time: 6 minutes) On the Purple Islands, we “just ordered an Uber,” though it took some luck. In Mokpo, the starting point of our journey, Uber isn’t very
DAY 12 (Reading time: 7 minutes) Once upon a time, 50 kilometers from Mokpo, there were three purple islands—Banwol, Bakji, and Anjwamyeon. They were connected by purple bridges. Everything on
