Hiking in Seoul — The City That Climbs (Part 1)
Hiking in Seoul starts before the city wakes. What foreign hikers find isn’t scenery. It’s a rhythm the city was built inside.
Series: From the Summits of Three Mountains
Baegundae — The Mountain Seoul Built Itself Around (Part 2)
The granite steps at Baegundae aren’t the hardest part. What stays with hikers is the hour before — the fortress wall, the pine forest, the quiet.
Bugaksan Mountain — The Peak That Watched the Palace (Part 3)
Closed for decades behind the Blue House, Bugaksan mountain reopened in 2022 — and hikers found a wall that had been watching the palace all along.
Gwanaksan — The Mountain That Belongs to Everyone (Part 4)
Gwanaksan hiking draws students, seniors, families every day. Foreign hikers are joining them — not for a monument, but for a rhythm.
Mountains in Seoul — The Chart Beneath the City (Part 5)
Three mountains, one river, six hundred years unmoved. The mountains in Seoul weren’t scenery — they were read, then built into, before the first wall rose.