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Is the Dongseo Trail Open Yet? A 2026 Update
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.
Tapsa Temple: One Man, Thirty Years, and Eighty Stone Pagodas
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.