
Seoraksan National Park. Credit: leftye/ Pixabay, CC0 1.0 Universal

(Photo Sourced From Global Asia and The Korea Forest Service)

At 7,185 feet above sea level, the 3.8-square-mile caldera lake, called Cheonji in Korean and Heaven’s Lake in English, was created a thousand years ago in one of the most significant volcanic eruptions in history. (Photo By Gilles Sabrie, Via: The New York Times)

(Jeju vice-governor of state affairs, Kim Bang-hun, bows (left) to the mountain spirit. Photo by The Jeju Weekly.)

Doltap’s are stone stacks that are conical cairns traditional near village entrances as objects of worship believed to keep away bad fortunes and invite good fortune. It has become a part of hiking culture to stack rocks and add to existing cairns to “get one more” as a good luck sign. (Photo Via: Seoul Metropolitan Government)