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Baekdu Mountain: the Pride of Korea, both North and South Posted by Tony Kitchen on May 7, 2016
Roughly 70% of South Korea is mountainous land. But for South Koreans, it’s most prized and cherished mountain lies on the border between North Korea and China. It’s a volcanic mountain, capped at it’s peak with a crater lake know as “heaven lake” (천지), named Baekdu Mountain (백두산), the sacred white-headed mountain. The common ties…