Loading…

Joe Steinbring

Paju

A still reservoir reflecting a cloudy sky, with forested hills and a boardwalk across the water.
A still morning on a reservoir in the hills of Paju.2024 · Photograph by Joe Steinbring
Static offline map showing Paju in South Korea with a location pin.

Static map displayed.

On September 18, 2024, the day after the long trip up from Busan, I took a tour bus from Seoul to Paju, along the border with North Korea. The first stop was Majangho Lake, a reservoir in the hills with a suspension bridge across it, and the second was the Odusan Unification Observatory, which looks across the river into North Korea. Around midday, we stopped at Imjingak. In the afternoon, we crossed into the Civilian Control Zone, went into the Third Tunnel, which North Korea dug under the border, and ended at the Dora Observatory.