Jecheon Blog

Free Buses to the Jecheon Bioexpo Sept 16 –Oct 16

jecheon — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:03:52 +0000

The Jecheon Bio-expo is a one long month festival displaying a plethora of ancient Oriental medicines, herbs, natural remedies and Oriental and International therapies. The event is held in the beautiful city and region of Jecheon located just 2 hours away from Seoul.

The month long event will cascade with everything imaginable related to oriental medicines and therapies. The stunning Expo area will contain gardens, herb gardens, parks, restaurants, stages all balanced by a stunning creek running right though the middle. As well as the pavilions, exhibitions, clinics and other such spaces elaborated in the other pages there will be a children’s park, a maze garden, aquatic botanical garden, observatory, themepark and a herb fair. The diverse sights and sounds will literally take you a whole day to discover and all for the cost of just one ticket.

For the duration of the event free buses will take foreign visitors from Seoul to Jecheon every day.

Please go to the official Jecheon Bio-expo blog for more details: http://bioexpo.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/free-buses-from-seoul-to-the-jecheon-bioexpo/

2 Weeks to go to Korea’s first giant Oriental Herb & Medicine Bioexpo

jecheon — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:41:48 +0000

I went down to visit the Bioexpo site first hand. It is one of the region’s flagship events that really takes advantage of the area as the herbal capital of Korea. I had a great time.

Please check my latest posting about the festival on the official blog and also please peruse the rest of the site to get more details: http://bioexpo.wordpress.com/2010/09/04/two-weeks-to-go/

Jecheon International Music & Film Festival

jecheon — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:49:41 +0000

The JIMFF is nearly upon us. Please visit the link to the JIMFF blog under the BLOGROLL title.

Jecheon – The City!

jecheon — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 08:16:39 +0000

Never come to Jecheon if you want a mini version of a big city. I made the mistake of coming two years ago with people who measured the quality of a city by the number of coffee franschises it has. If this really is the measure than Jecheon is way off. If however you really do want to get away from it all and do want to experience a much slower pace of life than this city of 150,000 people is for you. It reminds me of those towns that you see in movies set in the 80’s and the 70’s. The highest building looks to be about 8 stories high (the same as my officetel in Seoul) the rest are just low rise ramshackle buildings that line the streets. The the Jecheon International Music & Film film Festival is held right in the downtown and they close a number of streets up and erect a stage to compliment the one built by the lake.

I will be honest, the beautify of Jecheon is in its surrounding district. Jecheon, from what I have seen only so far, works best as a hub for transportation and a place to stay and eat. The surrounding area including the stunning lake, the temples and what not are what makes this place great. The tourist map sums it up – usually tourist maps focus on the down town but on the Jecheon map, it is a tiny little pin point the in amongst a whole region of activities and things to see. There is an emart, a cute little covered market (I love Korean markets) and a medicinal herb market. T he area is also well known for its medicines, herbs and remedys and as such holds a giant expo every year. There is obviously more and I intend to do more exploring of the city itself and I will let you know about this when I do. I will also be exploring the region and the famous lake which I will also blog about.