A view of a hillside near to the Military Hospital at Mok-dong, Kangso-ku, Seoul. The photo was taken on a winter day in 1970.

Once upon a time, I lived in a house at the foot of a hill before I moved to an apartment in Pundang where I live now.
I was strolling around on the nearby snowy hillside, when I happened to meet these naughty young children.
They were using a broken table for their sledding.
It was 25 years ago. In fact, the foremost was my eldest son, and the last rear was my second and last son, who is now a military policeman in Pusan.
He stopped his college for a while to enlist in the army.
Nowadays, many sledding facilities are available around the metropolitan area like Everland (former Yongin Farmland) and in glof courses, but their fees are very expensive.
In case of Pundang, you don't have to bother going far away from your home for sledding, because you can find nice natural sledding grounds nearby everywhere.
For example, the nearby Central Park is a nice place to sled one the snow falls.
The alleys northwest of the Octagonal Pavilion and the overbridge

at the entrance to Green Village themselves become nice sledding places in winter, which attract lots of people; young and old, men and womem altogether gather on the natural snowy sledding grounds, laughing, shouting and playing.
I ever saw a German-made sled there. I made by boys two wooden sleds.
Even if I wasn't sledding myself, it was a great pleasure for me just to hear the joyful screaming and see them tumbling all around or their dilightful faces.
central park in Pundang It really is a wonderful winter sightseeing for me.
I don't have to go far away, waging traffic wars and spending at least hundreds of thousand won.
The parking space is enough, too. It is not uncommon to bring some food or snacks with you.
Some of Pundang-residents often hold their barbecue party there.
If you are a gastronomist, you can find Japanese restaurants (which serve tuna fish at 20,000 Korean won for lunch[1$=880won]) down the Pundang Reservoir.
If you want economic dishes, the food stalls called the ``Let's Eat'' village ,or Ever Green Village) (or Ever Green Village) south of Sunny Village are recommendable.
For vegetarians there is a countryside-style retaurant specialized in steam barley dish, less than 200 meters from the Saemaul (New Community Movement) Training Center.
This humble restaurant, which is locate* just next door to the Chongsong Rib House, has no signboard, but a single menu, ``Hand-made noodle, is written on the glass window.
The home-like restaurant operated by an obofriginal is jammed on weekends or holidays due to its country-style both in its building struture and in the taste of the cuisne._--- ..<>.. THE CENTRAL PARK in Pundang, outskirts on Seoul(NIKON ASA 200 f1.4 2 sec shot)..
the house of duble ring A plentiful of steamed barley along with tasteful fresh vegetables mixed with original pure sesame oil (without any artificial flavor at all),
The drinking water boiled with burned barley, the home-brewed rice wine (which a first visitor would miss because of no menu indicating its availability)...
Famous steamed barley dishes at the restaurants near Mt. Chonggye are nothing, compared with that of his country house restaurant.
In addition, allow me to introduce one more extraordinary restaurant, named ``The House of Double Rings,'' maybe the cheapest roast meat house in the Bundang area, which is specialized in the ``Montogane''-style food such as every part of a porker.
central park in Pundang It is located in the neighborhood of the lower apartment building group, 2 km from Sunkyong Factory on the bank near Wong Kwang Clinic well-known for its skin doctor situated on the right just across the big bridge on the way toward Pungduckchon (Stream) from Pundang to Suwon. The tent-made restaurant means ``two testicles of a pig'' by ``double rings,'' according to the owner.
At this restaurant, roast belly flesh meat, roast spleen and roast roast ears of the pig, mixed with vegetables like onions, all the dishes are free, except for `soju,' a Korean strong licquer, which is as much as four times original prices (W4,000 per bottle).
The soju is compulsory, (without which no other food can be served).__<>THE WHITE NIGHT on Pundang.
Among the various pork parts, each of which is served up to everyone's tate, the very thing attached to the innermost of the pig's penis is the most favorite, but it is very rare.
It tastes a little sweet, delicate and sesame-like.
I looked around and found out that all the patrons here look like gentlemen whom I did not expected to be.