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Soulone Botanical Garden
Gyeonggi-do(Paju-si) , Paju(Heyri Art valley)

Soulone, meaning "filled with laughter," is a hidden healing space of approximately13,200 m². This is a place where you can rest your weary body and mind while being surrounded by the trees and flowers. You can also rest your eyes quietly gazing at garden trees, rocks, and potted plants (bonsai) beautifully decorating the place along with other other kinds of plants, like tropical plants in the greenhouse. A coffee shop with a modern interior will allow you to enjoy the landscaped garden at a glance while sipping your coffee. Also, it is refreshing to take a light walk along the tunnel of trees on the mountain road.

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Gimje Horizon Festival
Jeollabuk-do(Gimje-si)

Gimje Horizon Festival, held from late September to early October every year since 1999, takes place at Byeokgolje Reservoir, which is the heart of the Honam rice bowl. The festival aims to show the importance of Korea’s farming culture, which is a foundation of the nation, with the theme of sky and land meeting at the horizon. The festival also aims to promote the regional image and economy. Many dynamic and active programs are available for festival-goers to participate in before the golden horizon.Byeokgolje, the largest irrigation facility in the world, built 1,700 years ago during Baekje (King Biryu, 330), is embraced by the city of Gimje. Thanks to Byeokgolje, the area of Gimje is the birth place of Korea’s rice farming and agricultural culture. During the Baekje period, it was called ‘Byeokgolgun’ (a village of rice) which came from the fact that this area was the first area to start rice farming.During the festival, domestic and overseas visitors can take part in various hands-on programs feeling Korean farming culture in Byeokgolje (Historic Site No. 111). Visitors of all ages can easily take part in these programs to educate, inspire, and enjoy with a theme of spacious plains to the horizon. Events include kite-flying, rice-farming, catching grasshoppers, Korea Straw and Plants handicraft, making rice over an open fire, and other activities to entertain visitors.

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Sunchang Jangnyu
Jeollabuk-do(Sunchang-gun)

Located in front of the Traditional Gochujang Folk Village in Sunchang, Jeollabuk-do, Sunchang Jangnyu Experience Center offers visitors the opportunity to sample and make tasty dishes using Sunchang Gochujang (red pepper paste). Visitors can make the refined Sunchang Gochujang in the traditional manner along with a variety of other popular dishes such as Injeolmi (rice cake coated with bean powder) and Twibap (popped rice snack). In addition to a range of experience programs, clean accommodation facilities are also available for program participants.

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Danyang Jeokseong Fortress
Chungcheongbuk-do(Danyang-gun)

Danyang Jeokseong Fortress is a fortress made of stone from Seongjaesan Mountain in Danyang. About 900 square meters of the surrounding area was mostly destroyed, but in the northeast section, the inner wall of the part that was heaped across the wall still remains. The castle was built surrounding the mountain's southern slope and around the summit. It was designated as Historical Site No. 265 in August 1979. Also, the circumference of the fortress is 923 meters, but most of the fortress walls have collapsed. A 3-meter section of wall remains at the end of the northeast part. Three gates were found in the southwest, east, and southeast areas. Inside of the fortress is the Jeokseongbi stone stele. Jeokseong Fortress is also called Jeoksanseong, as the place was an outpost for the Silla army's invasion of the north, where they stole Goguryeo army’s compound. * Historical symbol of Jeokseongsanseong Fortress Jeokseongbi Stone Stele was found in 1978 inside of the fortress. This artifact relates the power struggle between the Silla and Goguryeo. Besides the stone stele, the fortress also houses relics from the Three Kingdoms Period, such as earthenware and tiles from the Goryeo period. Also, the method employed to construct the structure resulted in its sturdiness, and thus the fortress has important value for studying fortification.

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Seoul Open Night
Seoul(Jung-gu) , Seoul City Hall・Gwanghwamun

Seoul Culture Night is one of major summer festival held at nighttime, featuring Seoul’s nature, culture and architecture for visitors including Seoul residents and tourists. It will be held in the area of Seoul Square and DDP (Dongdaemun Design Plaza) and other places in Seoul. Various cultural facility which are not open in the normal days, and other creative and hands-on programs are prepared to give unique excitement.

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Solmoe Holy Ground
Chungcheongnam-do(Dangjin-si)

'Solmeo' gets its name from a small cluster of pine trees. The first Korean priest, Saint Kim Dae-gun Andrea was born here on August 21, 1821 and continued to live until he was seven to escape from persecution by following his grandfather to Handeok-dong, Yongin (Golmaemashil). Furthermore, it is where four generations of ancestors such as his great-grandfather Kim Jin-hu (martyred in 1814), great uncle Kim Han-hyun (1816), father Kim Jae-jun (1839), and priest Kim Dae-gun himself (martyred in 1846) lived.He was chosen as a theological student in Golmaemashil and studied in Macao. In 1846, he was ordained as priest by Bishop Ferréol in Shanghai, Kim Ga Hang Cathedral. After his return to Korea, he worked in Yongin until September 1846 when he was tried, executed and died a martyr when he was only 26. Pope Johannes Paulus II appointed him a saint during his visit to Korea in May 1984. In Solmoe, Priest Kim Dae-gun’s statue and a memorial stands underneath the pine trees and his remains are placed inside the nearby cathedral.

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Philos Hotel
Gyeongsangbuk-do(Pohang-si)

Philos Hotel is owned by a large hospitality company that operates five-star hotels, golf clubs, and restaurants in some of Korea’s busiest districts, many of which are concentrated in Seoul and the surrounding area. The company purchased Cygnus Hotel in 2008 and reopened the hotel under the name “Philos Hotel” after extensive remodeling. The revamped hotel now features a variety of facilities and guest amenities such as a large parking facility with 400 spaces, a convention hall with seating for up to 1,500, a Chinese restaurant, a seafood buffet restaurant, a wine bar, a fitness center, a sauna, and a spa therapy center. Catering to tourists and business travelers, the hotel offers 131 guestrooms, each of which has its own bedroom, bathroom, and living room and is equipped with modern heating and cooling systems, an LCD TV, a personal safe, and high-speed internet. Hotel suites even come outfitted with a whirlpool bathtub, perfect for easing guests of their travel fatigue. Water used at the hotel is pumped up out of natural bedrock 760m underground. The alkaline water is said to help naturally balance the pH of the human body, which is getting more and more acidic due to the new technologies, pollution, and fast-paced nature of modern society.

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Harmony Mart, Myeong-dong Branch (하모니마트(명동점)) [한국관광품질인증/Korea Quality]
Seoul(Jung-gu)

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Paju Gamaksan
Seoul(Jongno-gu)

A meat restaurant that is the ideal meeting place.The most famous menu is Grilled Korean Beef Sirloin.A barbecue specialty restaurant located in Daehak-ro , Seoul.

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Silleuk Temple Resort
Gyeonggi-do(Yeoju-si) , Yeoju

Situated in Yeoju, Gyeonggi Province, the Silleuksa Temple Resort (신륵사관광지) features countless relics and remains, awe-inspiring scenery, the Geumeun Sand Zone, and Silleuksa Temple. Silleuksa Temple is also referred to as the byeokjeol (‘walled temple’ because it has a pagoda made entirely of bricks). The pagoda was erected by the renowned Buddhist monk Wonhyo during the Silla Kingdom, and is visited by many who are drawn to the beautiful natural scenery along the banks of the Namhangang River, which is served by convenient transportation. Geumeun Sand Zone Shade is provided by the roughly 200 zelkova trees that are 30 to 50 years old. There are also washrooms, water supply facilities, and parking areas, making the area a good place for camping and swimming by the river’s banks. The area also features boating facilities and offers visitors the chance to collect some of the uniquely shaped stones that are scattered along the riverside. Along the shoreline, visitors will find a shopping center, rest facilities, a video arcade, amusement facilities (16 attractions in addition to a Viking-ship ride), and other facilities to satisfy the various tastes of visitors to the resort. Silleuksa Temple District With lodging available at the Silleuksa Temple Resort, the district is winning attention as a tourist destination, along with the tomb of King Sejong and the Moga Buddhist Museum, the area between Yeoju Bridge to Silleuksa Temple is an inviting place for romantic walk. There is also a natural reed field along the river, a putting green, parking areas, lodging, restaurants, local product stores, water fountains and a sports park.

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