Akyang-myeon, Hadong [Slow City]

This description was machine-translated from the Korea Tourism Organization's Korean original.

A slow city refers to a city that pursues the aesthetics of living slowly. On February 6, 2009, Akyang-myeon in Hadong-gun was put forward at the Slow City International Coordinating Committee and certified as Korea’s fifth slow city. Hadong Akyang has three kinds of fragrance. The novel’s scene of Seohui of the Choi Champan’s house in Pyeongsa-ri looking down over Akyang’s wide rice-field ridges remains just as it was. Hadong has many tributaries along with the Seomjin River, so it is foggy and humid, and with a large daily temperature range it is easy to cultivate tea trees and has soil well suited for tea trees to grow.