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Features 2025 WINTER
Paju’s Trinity of Pristine Flavors Located at the confluence of the Imjin and Han rivers, Paju benefits from fertile soil, clean water, and wide day-night temperature swings — conditions that produce exceptional crops. The region’s rice was once presented at the royal court during the Joseon Dynasty, and its pristine environment continues to yield healthful staples such as ginseng and Jangdan beans.#Paju
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Features 2025 WINTER
Encounters with Joseon in Paju Paju is a city with a remarkably long and layered history. The abundance of Paleolithic artifacts along with dolmen sites and remains of Bronze Age dwellings attests to millennia of continuous habitation. Once a major transportation hub linking the northern and southern parts of the Korean peninsula, it also bears the indelible traces of influential figures of the Joseon Dynasty, forming a landscape where history still speaks.#Paju #Joseon
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Features 2025 WINTER
Heyri: Art Etched into Nature’s Canvas A little over an hour northwest of Seoul, a drive along Jayu-ro allows you to leave the bustle of the city behind. The skyline recedes into the broad Han River estuary and the surrounding fields, and at the edge of this quiet landscape lies Heyri Art Valley, a village where art and nature gently converge.#Heyri
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Features 2025 WINTER
From Publishing Nexus to Cultural Hub Paju Book City was envisioned in the late 1980s by publishers determined to reshape and innovate Korea’s book industry. Nearly forty years later, the area has matured into the country’s most comprehensive complex for book production, home to leading publishing houses, printing companies, and artistic and cultural institutions.#PajuBookCity
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Features 2025 WINTER
The DMZ Recast as an Art Platform The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), long seen as a restricted space and stark reminder of the Cold War, has evolved into a site where discourses on politics, peace, and ecology converge. For artists, it is a multidimensional canvas where diverse concepts intersect. Through artistic initiatives that seek to transform the DMZ into an aesthetic experience, the border is shedding its historical image and being recast as a platform for art.#DMZ
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Features 2025 AUTUMN
Nine Flavors that Define Mokpo Few things are as memorable as an exceptionally good meal, and Mokpo has plenty of options to offer. Abundant seafood has shaped the city’s cuisine for generations, so much so that many travelers seek out its restaurants before visiting any famous landmarks. It is, without question, one of the nation’s most compelling gastronomic destinations.#MOKPO
