Have you seen one of those old Korean landscape paintings? The ones with the mountains. The artists were probably looking at something like this when they painted those.
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The landscape of Korea is basically a cluster of tiny mountains. There is no flat terrain on the horizon. And there's not many extremely high mountains either. And not a lot of dangerous wildlife. It's heaven for casual hikers.
The plants are also much smaller than the usual European / American woods. Which means it's easier to see over them. The greenery is too small to build treehouse in, but small enough to have dense bushes.
Those bushes can be a bit difficult to walk through. They make lovely branches for a campfire. But I don't advise setting up a campfire in the middle of mountain. You could set the whole mountain on fire.
No smoking signs can be visible here and there in these mountains because of how many Koreans smoke and don't put out their butts after smoking considering how many woods been burnt so far.
Hunting is not allowed without a certain permit, and only for a limited season with limited types and numbers.
There used to be tigers in the wild in Korea. Sadly, hunting tigers or their prey and industrialization drove them away during the last century. Last time I heard the closest place where tigers were spotted was 백두산 (Bek-Du Mountain), the tallest mountain in Korea on the border of North Korea and China.
This photo was taken from 대둔산 (Daedoon Mountain). It's easy to get to, and fun while you're there, but the bus schedules are a bit inconvenient.
Young-Gun Park
Young-Gun Park has been studying various forms of visual arts for more than a decade and has been involved in various community arts projects. He has been a writer and photographer for GPTWT for more than a year. His future portfolio projects include work in cinematography and graphic novels.
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