Buncheon 분천 on the bank of a beautiful stream is a very small village located to the northeast of Gyeongsan. It takes about 4 hours by train. The railway was primarily constructed to transport the natural resources like coal mined in the northern mountain areas.
Korean cities have been slowly changing with the onset of economic growth, so it is getting harder to find any buildings older than 30 years in cities. But we can still feel and enjoy the past in remote village like Buncheon, whose station had been crowded with people, and small stores and restaurants on the main street in front of it had prospered when most of the people used public transportation.
Many commuters got off the train in the morning here and transferred to buses for Uljin 울진, a major city on the eastern coast. But it is now an old tale because private cars have been popularized. Most stores were closed and villagers immigrated to cities. Only once a year, Buncheon is busy with people visiting here to spend their summer holidays. A nearby landscape streaming and valley has attracted tourists during the summer.
