Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Old towns & squares
전주시
More than 700 tile-roofed houses are packed together in the middle of a modern city. Jeonju Hanok Village is the largest cluster of traditional houses still standing in a Korean city centre, and as you wander its lanes you pass the portrai…
Churches & monasteries
전주시
Walk past the busy lanes of Jeonju Hanok Village towards the Jeonjucheon stream and you suddenly reach quiet stone walls and enormous ginkgo trees. Jeonju Hyanggyo was the state-run Confucian school of the Joseon-era town and also a shrine…
Historic sites & memorials
정읍시
Most seowon, Joseon-era Confucian academies, were built in quiet scenic spots away from villages, but Museong Seowon in Chilbo-myeon, Jeongeup, sits right in the middle of a village. It began as a shrine to the late-Silla scholar Choe Chi-…
Mountains & peaks
진안군
Drive across the Jinan plain and two grey rock peaks stand up side by side like a pair of pricked ears. Their resemblance to a horse's ears gave the mountain its name, Maisan (馬耳山). Up close the rock looks like rough concrete studded with…