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Quiet nights alone while traveling
#10 Milk & Honey
How do you usually spend your nights after dinner when you travel? I tend to go back to my hotel and sort through photos.That’s why I always carry my iPad with me.Especially on longer trips, I try to organize photos every single day.Unless you want to be hit by an overwhelming flood of photos after […]
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Is this Mokpo-style sushi?
#9 Sushi Ari
When I chose Mokpo as the destination for this trip,one of the very first things I didwas search whether there were any sushi restaurants in the city. I am not someone who loves sushi that much,but for some reason, this time I was curious. What would sushi feel likein a coastal city in Korea? I […]
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A Favorite Restaurant I Get Nervous About Becoming Too Well-Known
#8 Seonggyeong Junchi Hoetjip
I have a friend who is originally from Mokpo. He moved to Seoul during college, and now that he’s middle-aged, you could probably say he’s more of a Seoul person than a Mokpo person. Still, both he and his wife are from Mokpo, and all of their parents and siblings live there. They visit Mokpo several times a […]
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The Best Moment of This Trip
#7 Yudalsan
I had already spent a lot of energy on Goha Island. The health stairs, walking paths, and the coastal deck were not exactly a brutal course.It would be more honest to say that my physical strength has simply declined.My body is no longer what it was when I was younger. But my travel style is […]
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The Closest Place to the Sea
#6 Goha Island
The cable car that departed from the Buk-hang stationarrived at the Goha-do station about 15 minutes later. If I had lined up right away after getting off,I could have gone straight to Yudalsan,but since it was my first time on Goha Island,I wanted to look around first. Goha Island is an island located in the […]
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From Bukhang to Goha Island
#5 Mokpo Marine Cable Car
I’m not really the type of traveler who rides things like cable cars.It always feels like something for middle-aged tourists,a very obvious travel course. My style has always been to make my own routeand walk wherever I feel like walking. Well, to be fair,I am already a middle-aged man. I heard that the Mokpo Marine […]
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Instead of Kongguksu, Sundubu-jjigae
#4 Yudal Kongmul Bukhang Direct Store
There were several restaurants I wanted to visit in Mokpo,and one of them was, of course, the famous Yudal Kongmul. I had visited Mokpo several times before,but somehow had never managed to go there even once.So this time, I was determined to finally try it. Unfortunately, during the winter season,the main store is completely closed.They […]
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Another Port of Mokpo Tourists Don’t Know
#3 Bukhang
Every Korean knows the saying,“Mokpo is a port.” But most people don’t really knowhow many ports Mokpo actually has. There is Namhang(south port), mainly used by passenger ferries,Bukhang(north port), focused on cargo and fishing,Sinhang(new port), dedicated to containers and large cargo ships,and Daebul Port, used for the Daebul industrial complex. Daebul Port belongs administratively to […]
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Walking the old town, sleeping in the new town
#2 Pyeonghwa Square
The goal of this trip was simple.I wanted to walk through Mokpo slowly. That is why I did not take a taxi.Instead, I took a bus from Mokpo Station to the hotel. There was a reason for this. When I travel in small cities in Japan,I try to use buses or trams whenever I can. […]
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This trip is Mokpo.
#1 Prologue
It has been a while since my last domestic trip.This time, I decided to go to Mokpo. For Koreans, it’s a city that almost everyone recognizes by name,but surprisingly, not many people have actually traveled there.Compared to how well-known it is,Mokpo doesn’t get chosen very often as a travel destination. It feels different from popular […]
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