Running Along the Hantan River in Yeoncheon: What Nobody Tells You About This Hidden Gem
There are mornings in Korea that remind you why you came here in the first place. This morning was one of them. I laced up at 6am in Jeonggok, Yeoncheon — a small town about 90 minutes north of Seoul that most foreign visitors drive straight through without stopping. The sky was a clean, cloudless blue, temperature sitting at a comfortable 25°C. Perfect running weather. But the real story this morning wasn't the weather. It was the river. Two days ago, the central Gyeonggi region took a serious hit from a heavy rainstorm. The kind that keeps you indoors and makes you check your phone every twenty minutes. The Hantan River absorbed all of it. By this morning, it had transformed into something almost unrecognizable — wide, fast, brown, and loud in a way that a calm summer river never is. I ran 5 kilometers along the riverside path, and I couldn't take my eyes off it. Why Yeoncheon Jeonggok Deserves a Place on Your Korea Itinerary Most foreign travelers in Korea follow...