Junju, the big southern heart of Korea (photoblog part 1) by Michelle Min

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4 old and new friends (www.hoyacooks.com).

1 who calls Junju (Namwon) home.

36 hours of glorious food!

Part 1. Hanok Village and coffee houses a old and new.

Hanok (한옥) The traditional homes of Korea.

We stayed at the Hanok Village (한옥마을) in Junju.

It’s a village made for tourist, but that also makes it very well kept and gorgeous to photograph.

Mehju (매주), dried soybeans to make soy sauce and soybean paste.

View from the room in the morning, stunning.

Roof shingles used as pathway decoration.

Spoon used as lock, amazing!

Traditional tea house, Rhu gal dah won (루갈다원)

The owner handmade these lamp shades from Hanji (한지), handmade Korean paper.

Shang hwa cha (쌍화차)

Shang hwa cha (쌍화차) and Pine leaf tea (솔잎차)

A cafe with a gallery in the Hanok Village.

A new coffee house in the central shopping district, with hand drip coffee and in-house roasting.

Michelle Min is a freelance graphics designer and photographer based in Seoul. You can see her design website at www.touchtastedesign.com

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About the Author

Daniel

Daniel Gray is a Korean adoptee that returned to Korean in 2005 because he wanted to try and find his birth mother and to learn about Korean culture. He started a restaurant review blog in 2007, www.seouleats.com, that became a local and international hit. He and his blog has been featured in the New York Times, Monocle Magazine, The Kimchi Chronicles, Bizarre Foods, Rudy Maxa, Olive Magazine, Euronews and much more. He now is a partner at O’ngo Food Communications (www.ongofood.com), which is a culinary tourism and consulting company that offers Korean cooking classes and restaurant tours to travelers. Their food tours and cooking classes are ranked as one of the top attractions in Seoul according to tripadvisor.