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 [...]