Korea's first coast-to-coast hiking route, the 849 km Dongseo Trail (동서트레일), is opening in stages. Here's exactly which sections you can walk right now, what's still under construction, and when the full trail is expected to open.

Walking more improves not just physical health but helps to process emotions and brings mental clarity. In comparison to cycling or faster means of transportation, it forces the walker to slow down and notice surroundings. This quiet, constant movement helps to think through and gently release what has accumulated in the mind and body in a way that faster travel or screen time doesn’t allow.

Tapsa Temple is a unique Buddhist temple on Mount Maisan in Jinan County, South Korea. It is famous for its more than 80 hand-stacked, unusual stone towers, built without mortar by the Buddhist layman Lee Gap-ryeong over between 1885 to the early 1900s.