Jirisan Dulle-gil Section 3: Walking Through Korea's Tea Country
Off Map Korea English-guided walking trips through Korea. Quiet trails, hidden villages, slow moments. Driver-only, self-guided. ▸ Plan a trip The smell hits you before you see anything Green, grassy, faintly marine — the scent of ujeon (우전) tea drifting off low-trimmed bushes on a warm April morning is the first sign you have entered somewhere genuinely different. Section 3 of the Jirisan Dulle-gil (지리산 둘레길) moves through the tea-growing heartland of Hadong County, and it earns its reputation as the slowest, most quietly beautiful stretch of the entire 274-kilometre ring trail around Jirisan. Most foreign visitors who know Jirisan at all think of Cheonwangbong and the summit ridgeline. They miss this entirely — which makes this section all the more rewarding for those who seek it out. Why Section 3 is Different from the Rest of the Dulle-gil The Journal · Issue 09 Andong — the Confucian Highlands. A ridge, a village, a fire on the river. O...