13 April 2026
The lesser sky road
Jeonju movie street area
Having not been here before, I need to get around and see all the places. So I stayed within about a kilometre radius of my hotel and walked laps of the local shopping area.
The best I can do for finding out a name of this area, which is not the youth mall as I thought, is that it is called the movie street. There were a few cinemas and mention of a movie festival, but that was a couple of streets over from the centre of the action. Of course it being a Monday night in a tourist town, many thing are mostly closed on Monday's, that is why I did not go to the Hanok village area tonight, as surely that is all closed on Monday. I will probably go there during the day and night at different points to get all Hanok'd up in my Hanbok.
Actually I am going to invent the Manbok.
So far nearly everything I have seen is focused on tourism, other than a brief strip of hardware focused shops. That is fine with me, I am a tourist and I demand everything be about me.
Korean traditional cultural centre - really, nothing screams Korean tradition more than this strange building.
The sign says 'More donuts, less crime, general donut shop'. I guess they got their man (bear).
Gacha machine stores are EVERYWHERE. There is no one in any of them.
Check out the great clouds. Excellent light for this photo. The sunset looked good too but I could not find a clear view.
My dinner was a cheap Kimchi rice creation. Small serve too. I was sold by the fact that the restaurant was open, it was not rolling pasta where I went to previously in Changwon which was also open, and that the meal came in a metal bowl.
The main streets are covered with lots of spaceship looking fixtures. But cars are allowed to drive down the streets which makes walking under cover somewhat dangerous.
But here it is, the Jeonju version of the Daejeon sky road. It is not much, but at least it was turned on, unlike Daejeon.
Tomorrow is of course a hiking day. Both of my planned hikes here appear to be kind of short, but the bus rides to and from might prove challenging. I must remember to eat less food if the hikes are too short.