Travel essays from North and South Korea - 한국어로도 이야기 있습니다.
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.
글 | 로저 셰퍼드, 번역 | 강의구. It was a hot, windless Saturday in late May when we turned off the main eastern seaboard road about halfway between Tongcheon and Koseong in the province of Kangwon-do. Thick dust swirled from under the vehicle as it shuddered west on a stony road that glared under a …
Read more Mae-san, Chinese & South Korean guerrillas plus Bears. 북 강원도, 남한 군인과 곰의 흔적.
글 | 로저 셰퍼드, 번역 | 강의구. It was the first day of June (2017) when we arrived in the small Baekdu Daegan village of Ryongjo-ri located west of the port city of Wonsan in the province of Kangwon-do, North Korea. Over his smartphone, Hwang had managed to haul a disgruntled forest guide away from …
Read more Once upon a time when tigers smoked long pipes. 북의 백두대간, 신내린 무당과 호랑이.
글 | 로저 셰퍼드, 번역 | 강의구. Shortly after the election of President Trump, tensions on the Korean peninsula rose. The little rocket-man and the big orange-man were dangerously at each other, threatening this and that. I had already planned two expeditions of the Baekdu Daegan in North Korea and was adamant that I wasn’t …
“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!
