[한국기행] Take a bus and take a taxi Half 2 – Cheongsando, a spot with the aesthetics of slowness

by times news cr

2024-06-13 04:05:07

Reporter Park Yu-mi Picture = EBS Korea Journey

This can be a season the place it’s a disgrace to only keep within the nook of the room. Do you want an escape out of your tiring every day life? How about taking a bus or a taxi?

A narrative of individuals with a human scent within the particular surroundings seen from the automotive window alongside the mountain highway and the ocean highway. A bonus is the native eating places that solely you already know about, guided by veteran native drivers.

Let’s depart. Take a bus carrying your life and take a taxi!

This week (June 10-14) EBS 1TV present affairs and tradition program <한국기행>‘Take a Bus and Take a Taxi’ shall be aired in 5 episodes.

Cheongsando (靑山島), an island in Wando, Jeollanam-do, so named as a result of the mountains are inexperienced and the water is blue. It’s an island with a good looking aesthetic of slowness that tells us, ‘It’s okay to stroll slowly.’

On this island, there’s a bus that has been working continuous since 1977, whether or not it snows or rains. The identify is ‘Bongan Bus’. The one passenger bus on the island operated by eighth era native driver Kim Bong-an.

A particular visitor boarded that bus in the present day.

Singer Kim Beom-ryong, who gained essentially the most recognition within the 80s and 90s by way of ‘Wind Wind Wind’. He took the ‘Bongan Bus’ and went on a visit to Cheongsando.

The place we adopted the grandmothers we met by probability on the bus was to their neighborhood salon, ‘Magnificence Salon.’ It’s run by a pair, Lee Seong-ja and Joo Chang-min, who stopped by for a visit 10 years in the past and fell in love with Cheongsando earlier than settling down there. Right here, grandmothers get their hair accomplished, say howdy to one another, and share their affection with the delicacy ‘barley bread’ made by the couple.

We bought again on the bus and arrived at Doldam Village. There, a novel constructing caught the attention of singer Kim Beom-ryong. This can be a cafe that Hwang Ki-yoon created by himself by transforming a barn. There, you’ll be able to style ‘Abalone Uncooked Uncooked Fish’ made by mixing contemporary abalone caught by Cheongsando residents with numerous greens.

Cheongsando, an island so inexperienced that it hurts your eyes. What does Cheongsando appear like whenever you tour it by bus?

EBS’ ‘Korea Journey’, an area journey seeking Korea’s hidden surroundings and a good looking time journey documentary program that means that you can really feel and convey the scent of historical past, customs, structure, and tradition, is broadcast each Monday to Friday at 9:30 PM.

Reporter Park Yu-mi Picture = EBS Korea Journey

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2024-06-13 04:05:07

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