Overview
The settlement was founded by members of the Taegeukdo sect and by families displaced by the Korean War, laid out so that no house blocks another’s view — which is why the terraces read as they do. The 2009 regeneration brought murals, sculptures and galleries, and with them two million visitors a year to a village of about nine thousand residents. Signs ask for quiet, and several alleys are closed to visitors because people live in them.
Highlights
Follow the marked route from the top and buy the stamp map, which funds the village’s own projects. The Little Prince statue queue is the one thing here that is purely for a photograph; the galleries and the museum of the settlement are better use of an hour. Come on a weekday morning, and remember that the steep alleys are people’s front paths.