Last Saturday — ironically, the 61st anniversary of the start of the Korean War — a section of the Old Waegwan Railroad Bridge, nicknamed the “Bridge of National Defense” for its pivotal role in the Korean War, collapsed into the Nakdonggang River. Since it collapsed in the middle of the night, nobody was hurt, thank [...]
For the April Issue of SEOUL, I returned to the ancient Silla capital of Gyeongju, a town I’d visited last fall for a Yonhap/SEOUL story on Yangdong Village, which had just been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This time, though, I went to do a travel piece on the town itself, virtually an outdoor [...]
I spent Wednesday at Gyeongju’s Yangdong Village, recently designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, working on a story. The ancient capital of the Silla kingdom, Gyeongju is a wonderful place to visit as the town is virtually a big outdoor museum. You could probably spend months there and not see everything. Returning downtown from Yangdong [...]