Placed on a shelf in front of the tiny bunk were a gas cooker, heater, packet of cigarettes and lighter next to his ashtray. But it was the spotless windows on his fire-watch hut that said something. I found him meditating in it. Kim explained he’d been transmitting energy to Japan and before I could …
Individual Tourism remains an unlisted sanction for North Korea; however, vaguer sanctions, like cash transactions, can provide uncertainty for these individuals and operators. South Koreans, although prohibited by their government without the approval of the Unification Ministry, are technically allowed the idea to travel to North Korea as individuals. It is within their international human …
Read more Individual Tourism to North Korea. 개인에 의한 북한 관광은 공식 제재 목록에 빠져 있다.
“It was mid-afternoon when we arrived at Bokseongi-jae. It was hot, we were tired and we had been debating if we wanted to go further and camp in the woods, or better, find a town. At road passes, we liked to play rock paper scissors to decide if we should go left or right, but …
Read more To finish or not to finish the Baekdu Daegan? 백두대간, 끝을 볼 것인가 말 것인가?
Jeffrey Hanna is an Australian medical doctor. On a 2009 sabbatical to Korea he worked at the International Vaccine Institute, near the SNU campus. His work regarded a vaccine for dengue fever. Jeff sent me an email. “I went to a bookshop in Seoul to look for a book about the Injim Wars, but was …
Jeffrey Allen Randorf: “Since 2012 I have flown to Korea at least once a year to hike the Baekdu Daegan. I’ve tried to use the KNPS shelter reservation system without success.” One of the highlights of walking Korea’s Baekdu Daegan is passing through eight of its national parks. Some passionate readers will instantly disagree because …
Read more Korea National Parks Petition! 일곱 번째 이야기 – 국립공원에 대한 청원!
글: 로저 셰퍼드번역: 강의구 “I thought he was murdering me with his burning chest medicine!” Jeff Hagen was 34 years old when he hiked the Baekdu Daegan but more significantly he was the first foreigner to complete the hike solo. But it wasn’t his first introduction to the Baekdu Daegan. In 2009, he had joined …
백두대간 종주 캐나다 여인과 한국 등산의 비기 막걸리! 글: 로저 셰퍼드 번역: 강의구. On February 15, 2015, I got my first email from 29yr old Canadian Marilyne Marchand Gouin. “I was wondering how long fit hikers would require to hike the whole length of the Baekdu Daegan? Thank you!” “A fit hiker could take anywhere …
Read more Marilyne & Makoli, the secret weapon of Korean hikers!
“You told me one of the reasons to hike Baekdu Daegan was to overcome mental and physical challenges. How did that go” “It was only on my second night when I pulled a muscle in my lower back while getting out of the tent. I collapsed and was laying face down in the snow in …
Read more A big Kiwi on the Baekdu Daegan in Winter. 백두대간 눈보라 속의 뉴질랜드 거인.
글: 로저 셰퍼드 번역: 이균형 “Korea is like a high rise of elevated footpaths,” he said. I liked that comment. It was mid-March and I was taking a morning stroll with Rich Trevithick on a small peak called Byeongbang-san 160m. From a distance it looks like a shark’s dorsal fin cutting through the Seomjin-river. The …
Read more Big Kiwi and ghosts of the Baekdu Daegan (part 1). 백두대간의 왕 키위와 유령(1)
Sarah Brown is a female Brit who held an obsession with the Himalayas, but still she had never attempted a through-hike anywhere. One day, she read a travel article written by journalist Daniel Adamson for the Guardian newspaper. Daniel had approached me about the 백두대간 in 2013 and then came to Korea to explore a …
