GIC Tour will visit Yeongam and Wolchulsan National Park on Saturday.
The first stop on the tour will be the Wangin Baksa Museum. Wangin Baksa was an important scholar in the ancient Baekjae kingdom who lived and taught in Yeongam.
Later he went to Japan, bringing the Analects of Confucius and a book of Chinese characters with him, and started a long period of exchange between Baekjae and the Japanese.
The tour will go through the Wangin historical park, visiting several important sites, and trek on through the forest and into Wolchusan to visit Wangin’s school and a cave where he studied.
The tour will then take a bus further into the park to have lunch at a restaurant serving locally raised chicken.
After lunch, the tour will visit Dogapsa, a temple on the slopes of Wolchulsan, which has some of the oldest temple gates in Korea, a Goryeo rock carving and a small waterfall.
On the way back to Gwangju, the tour will visit an orchard growing a local specialty: figs.
The tour runs from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and costs 35,000 won for GIC members and 45,000 won for non-members, inclusive of food and travel.
To apply, reserve via eng.gic.or.kr by Wednesday. For inquiries, contact gictour@gic.or.kr
