Entrance to the Teddy Bear Museum, Bomun Resort, Gyeongju
After spending an afternoon at Bomun Resort recently, I had an epiphany: teddy bear museums are to Korea what wax museums are to the U.S. Both are cheesy as hell, prey on bored tourists and are not places you’d want to accidentally get locked in overnight. Not to mention, both spring up around resorts and tourist traps like mushrooms in a Virginia cow pasture after the rain. From Jeju Island to Mt. Seoraksan, teddy bear museums are currently the rage at all the major tourist destinations in South Korea. Of course Gyeongju’s Bomun Resort, being possibly the biggest tourist trap in the whole country, is blessed with not one, but two teddy bear museums, and they so happen to be just down the block from each other. read more
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