Significance of "sacred" Baekdusan Mountain to two Koreas, ahead of President Moon Jae-in's visit
- 6 years ago
Baekdusan Mountain is not an easy place for outsiders to reach however, especially from the North Korean side.
Our Seo Bo-bin tells us more. During the April summit in Panmunjom, President Moon mentioned that he really wanted to visit Baekdusan Mountain and see its crater lake, Lake Cheonji, from the Korean side and not the Chinese side. He repeated his wish when he arrived in North Korea earlier this week.
With a height of two-thousand-seven-hundred-forty-four meters, Baekdusan is the highest mountain on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast China. It's on the border of North Korea's Hamgyong-do Province and China's Jilin Province.
It's had several different names since ancient times.
The modern Korean name, Baekdusan, means white-head mountain.
It was first recorded over 13-hundred years ago. Around that time, it was also called Taebaeksan, meaning great-white mountain.
The crater lake at the top of the mountain, known as Heaven Lake, or Cheonji in Korean, is one of the highest crater lakes in the world.
A lot of international visitors, including many South Koreans, go up the mountain from the Chinese side. It is also a very popular tourist destination for visitors to North Korea.
In the inter-Korean summit agreement in 2007, the South and North agreed to run tours to Baekdusan, and even establish a direct air route to the mountain from Seoul, but the plan was never carried out.
Seo Bo-bin, Arirang News.
Our Seo Bo-bin tells us more. During the April summit in Panmunjom, President Moon mentioned that he really wanted to visit Baekdusan Mountain and see its crater lake, Lake Cheonji, from the Korean side and not the Chinese side. He repeated his wish when he arrived in North Korea earlier this week.
With a height of two-thousand-seven-hundred-forty-four meters, Baekdusan is the highest mountain on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast China. It's on the border of North Korea's Hamgyong-do Province and China's Jilin Province.
It's had several different names since ancient times.
The modern Korean name, Baekdusan, means white-head mountain.
It was first recorded over 13-hundred years ago. Around that time, it was also called Taebaeksan, meaning great-white mountain.
The crater lake at the top of the mountain, known as Heaven Lake, or Cheonji in Korean, is one of the highest crater lakes in the world.
A lot of international visitors, including many South Koreans, go up the mountain from the Chinese side. It is also a very popular tourist destination for visitors to North Korea.
In the inter-Korean summit agreement in 2007, the South and North agreed to run tours to Baekdusan, and even establish a direct air route to the mountain from Seoul, but the plan was never carried out.
Seo Bo-bin, Arirang News.