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Yongjang Valley 용장골

Gyeongju, Seoul · 35.7749, 129.2097

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The valley route up Namsan's quieter south side follows a stream past the site of Yongjangsa temple, where the fifteenth-century writer Kim Si-seup withdrew to write what is often called Korea's first novel. The payoff stands above the temple site: a Silla three-story pagoda planted straight onto bare bedrock at the ridgeline, so the entire mountain below reads as its pedestal.

Local context

Photographers come up from the Yongjang-ri side in late afternoon, when low light rakes across the pagoda and hikers from the busier Samneung side have mostly turned back.

Ridge pagodaQuiet valley trailSilla temple site

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