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You Don't Have to Walk All 770km 🚐 Want to walk this trail with a private driver? Off Map Korea drives small groups (2-6) to Korea's hidden paths. From ₩280,000/day · See packages → The Haeparang Trail runs the full length of Korea's east coast — from Oryukdo Skywalk in Busan all the way up to Goseong's Unification Observatory, just a few kilometres from the DMZ. It covers 50 stages, roughly 770 kilometres in total, and it would take most walkers around 35 days to complete end to end. Most people, including most Koreans, never attempt the full thing. What they do instead — and what I've been helping foreign visitors do for several years now — is cherry-pick the stages that deliver the most dramatic coastal scenery, the quietest village paths, and the most satisfying day on foot. The problem is always transport. Many of the best trailheads sit far outside any town with a bus stop, and even the ones that do have buses run on schedules that make a day hike genu...

Why Yokji-do Stopped Me in My Tracks 🚐 Want to walk this trail with a private driver? Off Map Korea drives small groups (2-6) to Korea's hidden paths. From ₩280,000/day · See packages → I've dropped clients at a lot of South Sea ferry terminals over the years — Wando, Nokdong, Samcheonpo — and most of the time the conversation on the drive down is about what to expect. The first time I drove a pair of Irish walkers to Tongyeong for Yokji-do, I honestly undersold it. I told them it was 'a quiet island with decent ridge views.' They came back to the car that evening shaking their heads. 'That cliff path,' one of them said, 'is the best thing we've done in Korea.' I've since taken many more groups there, and the reaction is almost always the same. Yokji-do (욕지도) is not famous on the international hiking circuit. That's exactly why it belongs on this blog. Getting to Yokji-do: The Tongyeong Ferry Yokji-do sits roughly 32 k...