A trip to South Korea's new Legoland resort and surrounding Chuncheon city

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It's difficult to think of a better way to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Children's Day in South Korea than by taking my four-year-old son, Theo, to the Legoland Korea Resort, which has timed its grand opening for this day (May 5). The new attraction is on Hajung-do island, in the mountain-enfolded city of Chuncheon, which is a 75-minute train...

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In line with children are grannies wearing visors, grandpas in aviator glasses, mothers in windbreakers, and the occasional father with a tattoo. Our QR codes are scanned and we enter the plastic citadel. The third such resort in Asia, after Malaysia and Japan, Legoland Korea turns out to be a selfie taker's paradise. It is hard to walk a few steps without ruining someone's snapshot.

He also fully endorses a cable car that opened in October 2021, with Austrian-made cabins that dangle their way across the lake before reaching a top station two-thirds of the way up Samaksan Mountain .We pass a curious tripled-domed structure — the Memorial Hall for Ethiopian veterans in the Korean war — and descend a few steps to the cool interior of Ethiopia Bet, a cafe that's been here since 1968, decades before Korea's coffee craze kicked off in earnest.

We follow some of the riders southeast, along Yeongseo Road, towards Namchuncheon Station, and duck into the Folk Flea Market.

 

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