Outdoor sports are very popular with Koreans and in the winter skiing and snowbound are particularly big. My boss at the after school English academy and her husband have season tickets to a ski resort and a month or so ago they asked us to join them one weekend! They took us to Yongpyong Ski Resort which is supposedly one of the nicest in Korea. According to the English translation on their website: "All the happiness you can image in the winter can be realized in Yongpyong". How is that for an endorsement!?
There was an amazing cable car lift that takes you up 3.7 km to the top of a mountain! Here is a picture of my handsome Hubs at the top. Ignore the sun in his eyes and check out that beautiful scenery behind him!
Plus we discovered that a warm bowl of Korean Ramen with a side of kimchi might be the yummiest ski break lunch ever! It really hit the spot.
Even though the cable car slope was listed as an intermediate level and I am NOT an intermideiate skier, somehow (ahem. . HUBS) I was talked into giving it a try later in the day . I did make it to the bottom but almost got kicked off twice by emergency patrols in the process. Apparently they have this up tight concept that you shouldn't be on a slope unless you can go down it on your skies as opposed to on your back??!