Gijang

I’ve been nurturing a new habit, nursing it, even closer to forcing it. I’ve spent too many weekends in cafes and movie houses and not enough time seeing the country. On this day, I took a half-hour subway ride to Gijang, a county just north of the better known Haeundae. I’d been here before, a handful of times to Yonggungsa, the Buddhist temple by the sea. If ever there was a postcard. This time though I limited myself to a small stretch of orange-rocked coast near Jukseong Dream Church. Others have called it Jukseong Catholic Church or the more operatic descriptor cathedral. It’s neither. The building was constructed as a set piece for a 2009 television drama called “Dream.” You can pray but don’t expect Communion. 

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