Life is a different Wave moving by Time and ending at Shore: 11월 2018

2018년 11월 26일 월요일

2018-11-25 Updating with Seasonal Photo-Gangwondo Hongcheun Palbongsan Climb in Korea- Peak 1 through Peak 8 Course

I made updating hike to Gangwondo Hongcheon Palbongsan Mountain which was consisting with eight different peaks. Highest Peak is Peak No. 8 which is elevating as 302m altitude. It was on of typical weather just starting to enter into winter from fall season which used to foggy or dusty most of these days, seasonal changing period. When I came to Palbongsan Ticket Booth at early in the morning before 9 o'clock and learned they could not allow me to get on the hike unless their course survey personal say Yes who was still on the way of surveying. I had to wait for about half an hour and got their confirmation I could start to hike provided that I had to pass complete course from peak 1 through 8, not allowed to come down through short cut on the complete course since these short cut course was icy and slippery. So I made a hike as the same as previous course from Peak No 1 through 8 as introduced at the course map. There was difference in hiking time today which was improved to three and half an hour hours including one hour break comparing to previous 4 hours including one hour break. Please note there is no Peak No. 2 photo because I could not find the monument of Peak No. 2 this time. I do d'not know why. I will more carefully check this Peak 2 next time. Please see for over all explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvg7qSfGqVc&feature=youtu.be

Starting to Ascend the Steep Uphill Road

Junction Between By Pass Road at left and Main Course at Right

Peak No 1 at Right

Peak No. 1 Monument with Stone Tower

Junction Between Peak No. 2 at Right and By Pass Road at Left

Sanshingak (Traditional Mountain Sprite) at Peak 2

Inside View of Sanshingak

Peak No. 3

Beautiful Peak No. 3 but Uncleared Scenery due to Deep Foggy

Around Peaks at Peak No. 4 but Uncleared Scenery due to Deep Foggy

Peak No. 4

Peak No. 5

Climbing over So steep Stairs to Peak No. 6

Junction Between Peak No. 5 and No. 6

288m Altitude Peak No. 6

Peak No 7

Peak No. 8

Old Pine Tree at Peak No. 8

Down View of Hongcheon River

Palbongsan Tour Complex

Deeply Foggy Palbongsan Mountain at Ground

Hongcheon River at Palbongsan Peak No. 8

Palbongsan Mountain View at Hongcheon River

2018년 11월 21일 수요일

Updating Relevant Photos-Best 5 Popular Traditional Market in Seoul – Information

There are 3520 traditional and modern markets in Seoul running which are ranking as top five, No 1 Namdaemun Market, No 2 Dongdaemun General Market, No 3 Pyeongwha Market, No 4, Gwangjang Traditional Market and No 5 Majang Livestock Market in terms of number of shops at the Market. If we count traditional market in terms of market area, these raking are changed as No 1 Seoul Yakryeong Market, No 2 Yeongdeunpo Distribution Market, No 3 Bangsan Market, No 4 Namdaemun Market and No 5 Dongdaemun Market. I will introduce traditional market in view of common easy shopping or something enjoyably playing and/or eating. They are as below.

1. Mangwon Market at Mapo Gu

l Address : #14, Poeunro 8 Gil, Mapo Gu, Seoul Korea.

l Opening Hours : AM 10:00 ~ PM 22:00.

l Access : Walking from Mangwon Subway Station at Line No 6 taking less than 5 minutes.

As well-known as best no one for young generation dating course, this market has been recently rising as higher position at younger people’s favorite dating course reflecting recent TV program as “Living Alone”. One of best menu is handmade Croquette on spot and handmade Kalgusu at present which are so popular and widely known mouth to mouth information and you should almost always wait for some time as a long waiting queue. You could walk to Hangang Parking less than 15 minutes where you could take break after shopping or dating. You could easily take a bus going to Sangam World Cup Parking where you could walk and see many different kind of gardening or nature view like look down view at the Park. There are also Manglidan Gil which is arranged at Poeunro Road near to Exit No 2 at Mangwon Subway Station which you could see particular unusual restaurant like Broncho, Spanish or Bingha Byeol, French or Miwansung Shikdang, desert special and so on.

2. Gwangjang Market at Jongro Gu, Seoul

l Address : #8, Chang Kyeonggung Ro, Jongro Gu, Seoul Korea.

l Opening Hours : AM 09:00 ~ PM 22:00.

l Access : Walking from Jongro Oga Subway Station at Line No 1 taking less than 1 minutes.

There are very well-known to most Seoul citizen as a best traditional market as more than 100 years history and traditional culture which you could easily approach at Subway Station, Jongro Oga at Line No. . This market has been introduced to many foreigners long time ago as one of best market in Seoul which they could take an opportunity to enjoy Korean traditional culture as well as reputed food as Mayak Gimbab, Bindaedeok (Mung Bean Pan Cake) or raw meat Sashimi and etc.

There are many fashion products at 2^nd floor which you could see domestic brand as well as sometimes famous imported from some countries. You could probably spend a lot time without time passing conscious since there are so many thing you take around. If you are liucky enough, you could buy something with very good price compensating your effort moving quite a time.

3. Bangsan Market at Jung Gu, Seoul

l Address : #18-1, Eulgoro 33 Gil, Jung Gu, Seoul Korea.

l Opening Hours : AM 07:00 ~ PM 19:00.

l Access : Walking from Eulgo 4 Ga Subway Station in Line No 2 or 5 taking less than 1 minutes.

As you cross over Choen Gyecheong Road, you could see Bangsan Market which is facing each other and not far from Gwangjang Market near to Jongro Oga Subway Station. Therefore you could easily take a shopping for both market, Gwangjang Market and Bangsan Market at a time. Bangsan Market has been well known a s special for packing material or baking or candle or natural soap which you buy these products lower price than other market price in general.

4. Yakryeong Market (Kyeongdong Market) at Dongdaemun Gu, Seoul

l Address : #147, Wangsan Ro, Dongdaemun Gu, Seoul Korea.

l Opening Hours : AM 09:00 ~ PM 22:00.

l Access : Walking from Jegidong Subway Station at Line No 1 taking less than 1 minutes.

Anybody who are interested in healthy and its related items should pay a visit to the Yakryeong Market which was opened in 1960 and lasted for 58 years. They are leading traditional market trading health related items in Korea. More than 70% of all health related items in Korea have been traded at this market. They are No. 1 position trading biggest volume of Ginseng in Korea which additionally handling many medical hubs like turmeric or corni or Chinese matrimony vine or milk vetch root or Korea angelica root and so on.

There is a Korea Traditional Museum just entrance to the market where you could look Korea traditional medical herbs or antiquity. You could also experience traditional herb related food menu or temple food menu at Omi Good Research Institute.

5. Saemaeul Market at Songpa Gu, Seoul

l Address : #24, Seokcehon Hosu Ro 24, Songpa Gu, Seoul Korea.

l Opening Hours : AM 10:00 ~ PM 21:00.

l Access : Walking from Shincheun Subway Station at Line No 2 taking less than 5 minutes.

This Saemaeul market has been widely known as special or various food where you

could enjoy different menu which has been opened in 1970 and called as biggest market

at Gangnam. We used to call this market as Meokja Golmok which means enjoyably

eating area.

There famous Pao Pao, delicious prawn tumbling or Dakgangjeong, spiced fried chicken wrapped with perilla leave or memorial Deokboggi or color muddle, selecting as individual hobby and so on. There are two good dating courses, first one Janshil General Sport Complex and second Seokcheong Lake where you could go there less than half an hour on foot from the Market. You could of course take nice exceptional date at Jamshil Baseball Complex not far from the Market.

Entrance of Mangwon Market

Entrance of Bangsan Market

Entrance of Yakryeong Market

Pan-fried Menu at Food Corner in Gwangjang Market

Fashion Corner at 2nd Floor in Gwangjang Market

Food Corner at Gwangjang Market

Food Corner at Mangwon Market

Food Corner at Songpa Saemaeul Market

Fruit Corner at Yakryeong Market

Korea Herb Corner at Yakryeong Market

Korea Medical Herb Festival at Yakryeong Market

Entrance of Mangwon Market

Korea Medical Herb at Yakryeong Maket

Printing and Packing Material Corner at Bangsan Market

Typical Menu at Songpa Saemaeul market

2018년 11월 19일 월요일

Gangwondo Donghae Dutasan Mountain Hike in Korea- Dutasan Daedje Hill Course

1. Date and Time : Nov 13, 2018 09:00~16:00 (7 hours including one hours break).

2. Location : Donghae-si and Hajang-myeon (Town), Miro-myeon (Town), Samcheok-si (City), Gangwon-do (Province).

3. Distance and Course : About 13.83km. Course is to start at Dutasan Daedje Hill Parking Lot => Tonggoljae Hill => Dutasan Summit (1,352.7m Altitude) => Back to the Daedje Hill Parking Lot through the Same Ascending Course. Please refer to Donghae Dutasan Hike Course Mao and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmjFhU-nQFM

4. Access :

There are various ways to the Dong Seoul Bus Terminal where you could use subway or bus or taxis depend on your situation. You could take Samcheok Intercity Bus Terminal at Dong Seoul Bus terminal and get off at the Terminal 3 hour. But there is no proper public transportation from there to Dutasan Daedje Hill which takes about 40 hour only by taxi for more than 25 km. Therefore it would be too long way to take a taxi for the trip as well as heavy cost for booking taxi on the way back to the Samcheok Intercity Bus Terminal. So you would better take rent car instead.

5. Overall Remarks.

Dutasan (Mt.) forms the shape of a Buddha lying down It stands in front of Cheongoksan (Mt.) face to face with Bakdallyeong (Ridge) in the middle. Thick forests and old pine trees take deep root into extraordinary cliffs of Dutasan (Mt.) and it is designated as national tour site No.1 of Gangwon-do.

The word Duta means dismissing all agony and train for Buddhism. This leads to the conclusion of Dutasan (Mt.) being strongly related to Buddhism. Although there remain only 3 temples such as Samhwasa, Gwaneumam, and Cheoneunsa now, Mureunggye seems to have been the center of Duta where Buddhism flourished considering historical records that says there were over 10 temples before.

By going about 4km into the southwest from Samhwadong, the entrance of Dutasan (Mt.), there is a huge rock where more than hundreds of people can rest. This rock is〈Mureungban (rock)〉, from which the famous Mureunggye is unfolded. Upon the Mureungbanseok (rock) are carved the writings of Anpyeongdaegun, Han Ho (Seokbong), Kim Gu and Yang Saeon, one of the 4 greatest writers of the Joseon dynasty.

It's interesting that they are praising Dutasan (Mt.) with 12 letters which are 'Mureungseonwon Jungdaecheonseok Dutadongcheon (武陵仙源中臺泉石頭陀洞天)'. Mureunggye of Dutasan (Mt.) originates from the term 'Mureungdowon' (Paradise) in <Dohwaweongi> of Doyeonmyeong in the Jin dynasty of ancient China. It means that this place is a whole new world separate from the world. There is a site of a fortress, over 2Km in girth, at the entrance of Dutasan starting form Mureunggye. Inside Mureunggye exist famous rocks such as Mureungbanseok and Hoam, Beteulbawi (Loom Rock), Haksodae, Byeorakbawi (Thunder Rock), Byeongpungbawi (Folding Screen Rock), Daegweolteo (Site of a Castle), Munbawi (Door Rock). 3-tier Yongchupokpo (Waterfall), Ssangpok (Waterfall), Chilseongpokpo (Waterfall), Bakdalpokpo (Waterfall), Sangpok (Waterfall), Gwaneumpokpo (Waterfall) add savor to the scenery. These outstanding sceneries has lured poets and artists to Mureunggyegok of Dutasan (Mt.) since time immemorial. The peaks of Dutasan (Mt.) are overlapped with those of Cheongoksan (Mt., 1.403m). Although Dutasan (Mt.) is 51m lower than Cheongoksan (Mt.), people call the whole mountain Dutasan (Mt.).

About 6-kilometer-long ridge connecting Dutasan (Mt.) and Cheongoksan (Mt.) looks like a giant clothes rack, earning the nickname of Euigadeung (meaning hanger shaped peak). By following the ridge which connects Cheongok and Duta, you can realize the praises of old poets.

6. Detailed Course Information

As I was staying at Galisan Forest Recreation Lodge, not far away, I could come over to Daedje Hill early in the morning before 9 o’clock and parked the car at Daedje free parking area. I found foggy was deeper and heavier than yesterday at the Parking Lot. But I expected this foggy would be clear or lesser at afternoon in reflection to sun rise. I first of all checked Hike Course Map at the parking area and took a Course No. 1 which takes 3 hours for going up to the Summit which means 6 hours for round hike. But I personally estimated about 7 hours for round hike taking into account my age situation, well senior. Daedje Parking Lot was already elevating 800m altitude which means I could climb over 537m elevation in fact. But distance to the Summit was a different story which was nearly 14km for round hike, up and down. Anyhow I started to walk on easy and wider mountain transportation road from the parking lot for about 20 minutes and found this road was blocked with wood branch or log and opening narrow hiking path at right as see at the photo. I just followed indication and started to walk on slightly sloped uphill ridge road for about 10 minutes and reached first junction mark stating as 5.2km to the Summit at left and 500m to Haedaeddeung at right which I walked for about 900m from the parking Lot. This junction was situating on ridge road which was comparably soft and at pine tree and larch and oak tree forest. I generally could not feel so hard to walk up on this ridge road and walked on this ridge road for some more than a quarter minutes and met next landmark; 4.8km to the Summit at straight and 1.3km to the parking lot backward. I kept walking on the similar ridge road for about three quarter minutes without break, only photo and video and met next landmark; 3.9km to the Summit at straight and 2.2km to the Parking Lot at backward. I started to realize this foggy was getting deeper and heavier which was situating or moving to other direction than I expected before at the Parking Lot. But I was continuously walking on the road for about half an hour and faced next landmark stating as 3.3km to the Summit at straight and 2.8km to the Parking Lot at backward. I kept walking uphill and found Dutasan Summit was remotely revealed in front on the way walking which looked quite far there at that time as see at the photo. When I made somewhat hard walking for about 40 minutes and reached Tonggoljae Hill which was the most hard and difficult course today. The landmark was figuring as 2.1km to the Summit and 4.0km to the Parking Lot at backward which meant I walked more than half at complete hike course. I decided to take a short break there and carried on walking up the most hard and difficult uphill course and struggled for some more than half an hour and reached next landmark; 1.4km to the Summit and 700m to the Tonggoljae Hill which meant I came over here 4.7km from the Parking Lot. I started to recognize foggy getting worse and worse depend on time by time which were completely opposite direction from my expectation at early in the morning. As I pitched up to the Summit, I found it was not only dense foggy but also light hail around the Summit which made me a scare or concerned since there was nobody I met up here so far, even becoming somewhat darker. I was wondering for a moment if I would continue to climb the Summit under such scared situation and finally took a determination going up and touch the Summit goal that day and made last struggle for about three quarter minutes and finally touched down Dutasan Summit 1,353m altitude as see at the photo attached herein. But foggy was so deep and heavy I could not see around and quickly took a picture around the Summit and descended the Summit and back to the Parking Lot through the same course after 3 hours from the top, total 7 hours for up and down which I took this morning.