One moment — walking above the clouds...
Searching for hidden Korean treasures...
“A Baekje folktale from the Samguk Sagi: a king blinded Domi's husband to test his wife's steadfast heart, but she escaped by her wits and reunited with her blinded husband at the riverside. A one-day course beginning at the Lady Domi Shrine in Ocheon-myeon, Boryeong, the tale's real home, tracing a heart that would not waver and a road that parts and joins. 9 missions across the Lady Domi Shrine, Chungcheong Naval Fortress, Seongjusa Temple Site, the Muchangpo Mystic Sea Road, Daecheon Beach, Sanghwawon Garden, Cheonbuk Oyster Village, Daecheon Hoe Center, and Muchangpo Prawn & Pen Shell Street.”
6 spots total. Take them in any order.
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You pay after you finish getting ready
See every spot in this course at a glance. Tap a colored pin to read the one-line intro.
First, choose a role. At every stop, whoever suits that place steps forward and opens the story. When you arrive, a character from the folktale speaks to you. Answer the quiz and finish the mission to win back a shard. Collect them all, and you close the story at the final place.
Long ago, in a seaside village, there lived a couple, Domi and his wife, who cherished each other deeply. The husband knew the sea well and had a deep heart, and the wife was beautiful and wise. Their life was simple, but every day they were happy. One day, the king of the land wanted to test the wife's wisdom and her upright heart. The king summoned the husband to the palace and kept him from going home, then sent someone to the wife, telling her to become his. But the wife came up with a plan: she dressed a maidservant to look like herself, sent her in her place, and fooled the king. When the king later learned he had been tricked, he was furious. He took the sight from both of the husband's eyes, put him in a small boat, and set him adrift on the rough sea. Then he tried to take the wife as well, but she slipped away under cover of night, barely escaping, and made her way to the shore. The wife wept with sorrow, but she did not give up. On her own, she found a small boat and set out to sea to look for her husband. She could not know where he was, but every day she walked on, believing, "I'm going to meet him now." Today it is your turn to stand beside the wife and walk those earnest steps with her.
Boss spot — where a parted road joins again in the end. In the short while the sea road opens, quietly call to mind someone you've drifted from but wish to be joined with again someday.
Walk the corridor once around the island slowly, then quietly choose how "a road that meets again" speaks to you. There's no right or wrong — just whichever is closest to your heart right now.
The final spot — a causeway binding two parted places. Capture the long-stretching seawall (or the sunset setting over it) in a photo, and close out today's course in a single frame.
Walk the beach slowly and capture the waves coming and going in a photo. Even lovelier at sunset.
Stroll the island slowly, then quietly choose how "a heart connected even while apart" speaks to you. There's no right or wrong — just whichever is closest to your heart right now.
Capture the scene of the harbor where the boats return. The moored boats, or the horizon and harbor together, all work well.