Seoraksan National Park

Seoraksan! This place is absolutely gorgeous. Rate+Comment+Subscribe!

Seoraksan National Park, "설악산" in Hangul, is near Sokcho on Korea's Northeast coast. We visitied in mid June and it was absolutely beautiful!

Music is "Yashi No Mi", an old Japanese folk song recorded by Evan.

Everything shot on an Olympus E-PL2.

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• 설악산
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• evannrachel

[hotfingersandwich]

Just stumbled across some of your videos and they brought back some memories. I lived in Greensboro from '87 to '97 (afternoons at Tate Street Coffee House reading H. Miller and Dostoevski) and then went to Seoul to teach English for about six years. I also did a few jaunts through southeast Asia (Burma, Thailand, etc.) during that time. Anyway, I'm now married to a Korean lady and go back to Korea every year for about a month. Where are you guys teaching?

[EvannRachel]

@hotfingersandwich Wow! Small world, it is. We've been in Seoul since July. I (Evan) am leaving for the USA tomorrow though, and Rachel leaves a short while after that. We're coming back in mid August and we'll probably be further south - Mokpo, Jinju, somewhere down there. :-) Where were you teaching here?

[ABombs1]

1:59 - CLIMBED IT. RIGHT to the top. Man that was deadly.

[EvannRachel]

@ABombs1 Whoa! I'm so out of shape I was getting tired just heading up to the hermitage.

[GodOfBiscuits66]

Amazing place. Wish there was somewhere like that in San Diego.  I would be there all of the time. Guess I will have to just be content with going to the beach. :-)

[EvannRachel]

@GodOfBiscuits66 Oh yeah, hard to complain about S.D.!

[nachtnite]

I love this comfortable BGM. also with nice landscape scene.

Thank you.

[hotfingersandwich]

@EvannRachel Also, if you're interested in traditional Korean music, head down to the National Performing Arts Center in Seoul south of the Han River (it's in 서초동). Every Saturday afternoon (at 5PM, if I remember correctly) they have a concert with a wide variety of music (folk, court) performed by some of the best musicians in the country. It's only like 7 or 8 bucks to get in. Just do a Google Maps search for the Center. The Center has several theaters, and the 예술의 전당 is the one you want.

[hotfingersandwich]

@EvannRachel I taught all six years in Seoul at a small school called WILS. It's in Mok-dong on the purple line. I lived in Shin-jeong Dong, Shin-Chon Dong, and in Yeonshinae. My wife's family lives down in 전주, famed for its 비빔밥. Have you guys been to 해인사 yet? It's a Buddhist temple down around 전주 that houses 80,000 some wooden printing plates of the Buddhist Tripitaka. Also, check out the green tea fields in 보성. Finally, try to hike up (and camp out perhaps?) 지리산 if you can make the time.

[BlindAstronaut]

great quality vid! that cam must of cost a bundle.

[TyYann]

Nice!

[GodOfBiscuits66]

@SarahsAdventures, with LA traffic it is more like 7-9 hours. LOL