Category: East Asia

Hanok Villages in South Korea

Best Hanok Villages in South Korea: A Traveler’s Guide to Joseon’s Traditional Homes & Culture

Exploring South Korea’s heart through its most beautiful Hanok villages! Tips & tricks on how to get the best out of spending time in timeless Korean home enclaves where traditional architecture from the Joseon era meets cultural charm. And modernity.

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Haeundae Beach

Wonder-Filled Things To Do at Haeundae Beach, Busan, South Korea

At Haeundae Beach, Busan’s most beloved shoreline, all things to do and all things happening betray the pure, understated happiness and simple delights of Korean life. There, where the city meets the sea and the mountains. There, where Busan’s skyscrapers cast reflections in hues of green and blue.

And sunsets steal the hearts of many.

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Cultural Center in Bukchon Hanok Village

Bukchon Hanok Village Guide & Map: A Living Story of the Joseon Dynasty (Updated 2023)

A long list of out-of-this-world things to do in Bukchon Hanok Village, Seoul, South Korea. Ready?

The ancient South Korean Bukchon Hanok Village is a rare time-machine neighbourhood. An attraction worth of topping any list of places to visit in Seoul. The village takes you back more than 600 years ago, to the ancient Joseon Dynasty era, while confining pieces of what used to be the lifestyle of the upper class of those times.

In all my travels, I have hardly ever seen such a surprising urban artefact.


Bukchon means Northern Village and it was called so due to its strategic position on the Joseon Map, north of Cheonggyecheong Stream and Jongno.

Traditionally, this was the residential quarter of high-ranking government officials and nobility. Even though some of the old hanoks have been modernized being transformed into the so called fusion hanoks, there are still plenty of well-conserved examples of art and architecture reminding of the ways old Koreans used to live.

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