October 21 Visit to World Cup Park Korea
travel log Korea and the World
Tavel Log Korea and the World – Travel the world with Cosmos
Welcome to my travel log. I will be updating this on a regular basis. I have a lot saved up. For now here are a few postings about some of my favorite places in Korea.
Visit to Poet’s Hill, Seoul Korea
“Wishing not to have
so much as a speck of shame
toward heaven until the day I die,
I suffered, even when the wind stirred the leaves.”
For most Koreans, whether young or old, the first verses of the late poet Yun Dong-ju’s famous poem “Foreword” are as familiar as the innumerable accounts of the dark period of Korean history during which they were birthed.
I took a trip the other day to the Poet’s Hill which celebrates the life of the late poet, Yun Dongju who died in a Japanese prison in 1945 at the age of 26. His crime? Writing poetry in Korean calling for Korean independence. For that he was arrested, and tortured to death in the waning days of the Japanese occupation.
The poet’s hill is located near the Blue house on the way to Ikwangsan mountain. There is a nice museum there and behind the museum a walk through the hills that look the same as when he lived in the neighborhood and wrote his most famous poems.
From there one can walk into Ikwangsan mountain park. There is a nice walk nearby that takes you into a shaman village filled with shamanistic shrines and the home of fortune tellers to this day.
That day we walked from the Poet’s hill along Ikwangsan to Sajik park. A total of 2 miles or so. It was a cold day in January but a brisk walk did us good.
One day I walked from the Poets Hill park around Ikwangsan to Sajik Park. The views are very nice. We saw frozen waterfalls everywhere.
