Day-by-day routes for Seoul, Jeju, Busan, and the side roads locals rate. Real walking distances, real hours.
A slow river bend below limestone cliffs, a cave with almost two kilometers of ladders, and garlic in nearly everything — Danyang, two hours from Seoul. KO: 단양 이틀, 강과 절벽 그리고 마늘
Seoul reaches Chuncheon in an hour, but the lake city rewards two days — makguksu before dakgalbi, a boat across Soyang, and an old rail line you pedal by hand. KO: 춘천에서 보내는 이틀, 호수 곁에서
Three days around a South Sea island where rice terraces fall into the water and bamboo tidal traps still take the anchovies. Drivable, with buses if you'd rather not. KO: 남해 3일, 다랭이논과 죽방렴
Korea's rail map stops short of Tongyeong, so every arrival is a bus arrival. Two days of markets, a cable car, and an hour of open water. KO: 기차가 닿지 않는 항구, 통영에서 이틀
A southwestern port town where a hill ends in open water, a cable car crosses to an island, and the octopus has thread-thin legs. KO: 목포 이틀, 철길이 바다에서 끝나는 곳
Korea's northeast corner in a weekend: a channel you cross by hauling the boat yourself, squid stuffed and sliced, and Seoraksan's granite an hour before dark. KO: 속초 이틀, 갯배로 건너는 아바이마을
A slow two-day route through Korea's largest coastal reed marsh, a six-century walled village, and the pork-broth breakfast the market serves before the tour buses land. KO: 순천에서 보내는 이틀, 갈대밭과 낙안읍성
Between shoreline and summit, Jeju's volcanic cones stand in the grass and the buses run half empty. A day inland, from Gujwa's queen of the oreum to an 800-year nutmeg forest. KO: 제주 중산간, 오름 사이를 걷는 하루
A slow east-coast arc from a five-century hanok to the café row at Anmok and a pine-ringed lake at dusk — with the trains, prices, and tofu that hold it together. KO: 강릉에서의 하루: 오죽, 커피, 소나무
A working harbour four and a half hours south of Seoul, where the ferries set the schedule and the oysters are cheapest within sight of the rafts. KO: 이틀의 통영: 굴과 섬으로 짠 항구
One flat-fare bus circles Jeju's east — turquoise coves, a nutmeg forest, an oreum at dawn. Two unhurried days and no car needed. KO: 201번 버스로 도는 제주 동쪽 이틀
Korea's longest river, driven slowly from Andong's dusk reservoir to the eel roads of Haman — garlic country, an ancient marsh, and burial mounds in between. KO: 낙동강 따라 나흘, 안동에서 함안까지
The old Silla capital keeps its thousand years in the open — tombs beside convenience stores, a granite Buddha up a wooded ridge. Three days is the right measure. KO: 도시 자체가 박물관인 경주 3일