Yangjae Citizen Forest
Wooded urban park with a barefoot pebble path, planted for the nineteen eighty-six Asian Games.
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This guide to Yangjae Citizen Forest in Seoul, planted among pines and zelkova trees for the 1986 Asian Games, centers on the man memorialized within it: a farmer's son named Yun Bong-gil who grew up watching Japan rule Korea. It follows him to a park in Shanghai on April 29, 1932, carrying a water bottle and a lunch box on the day Japanese officials gathered there to mark the emperor's birthday. You'll hear how the forest came to carry his pen name decades later, and why older visitors still call it by its original one. Head toward the barefoot pebble path to start the walk the guide describes.
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