Daegu Touristic Guide, South Korea: The City History, Vacation, Business, Honeymoon

Daegu Touristic Guide, South Korea. The City History, Vacation, Business, Honeymoon. South Korea’s fourth-largest city is a pleasant and progressive place with a fascinating traditional-medicine market; a historic central area packed with heritage, old churches and missionary residences; some excellent eating options; and a humming downtown that’s good fun to explore. The city is a popular place for exchange students and English teachers, and the large student population gives Daegu a young and carefree feel. A simple, three-line subway system makes getting around easy, and Daegu (sometimes spelled Taegu) is also a great hub for day trips; including to Haein-sa and Jikji-sa, both of which offer templestays. Daegu Korea Daegu, located inland in the middle of South Korea, is a progressive city with a split down the middle of contemporary developments and ancient tradition preservation. A running joke in the country is that ‘many of the gorgeous girls come from Daegu’ (and if you’re a fan of watching Korean drama, you might remember this reference from the series ‘Oh My Venus’!). With a reputation like this, who isn’t slightly intrigued about this unfairly unfamiliar city. Whilst Daegu is known for many things by the locals, it’s most famously known to be the hottest place in summer in Korea. As it is a city that is situated down the middle at the bottom of a wide mountainous area, in summer, the heat becomes trapped between the valleys and causes the city to heat up to extremely high levels, hence it’s nickname, ‘Daefrica’, which is an amalgamation of Daegu and Africa. The name Daegu itself literally translates to ‘large hill’. Daegu is also home to some of the strongest practices of traditional oriental medicine in Korea, with an entire street market dedicated to generations of families selling their sought-after solutions to the locals who still hold oriental medicine in high regard. Read more