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Fire pot pizza at an arboretum

The name in Korean means a hill filled with laughter.




Beautiful trees, bonsai plants and garden rocks are packed on a hill where Soul One’s green lawn spreads open wide. Well maintained garden trees, bonsai plants and tree fossils that possess mystical forms resemble artworks. As you walk along the trail, you may enjoy the garden trees and rocks like paintings held on the walls of an art gallery.




If the ages of all of the trees are added together, the total is whopping 25,000 years old. Cornelian cherry trees, which blossom clear, yellow-colored flowers in spring and bear red fruit during fall, have lived a lifetime of 400 years. The toughness of the trees that have endured a long time is felt from its winding and distorted truck and stubbornly stretched twigs. Soul One where breathing treasures are rooted is comparable to any other world-renowned gardens.




The Oak Tree Rest Area filled with 250-year-old oak trees is the the most favorite place to relax at Soul One. All trees that bear acorns are called oak trees, and the four oak trees here are dangsangmok, or the protectors of the village, at which rituals have been held every year.




The building at the entrance that leads to the garden of Soul One runs a café and a restaurant. Various teas and desserts are sold at the café on the 1st floor while Italian dishes may be enjoyed at the restaurant on the 2nd floor from which the garden can be seen at a glance. Its go-to menu is pizza baked in a fire pot and, at this restaurant, you may taste a hot, freshly baked pizza while looking onto green, refreshing plants of the arboretum. Visitors of the arboretum may receive discounts for the café menu, and those who eat at the restaurant are admitted into the arboretum at free of charge.



Written and photos by Park Hee-eun



Website soulone.co.kr

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  • Soul One

    Address/ 299-3, Chukhyeon-ri Tanhyeon-myeon, Paju-si, Gyeonggi-do

    Contact / 031-945-4261

    Hours of operation / Restaurant: 11:00-20:30, Garden: 9:30-19:00

    Closed on/ Mondays

    Admission / Adults: 5,000 KRW, Teenagers: 3,000 KRW

    Menu/ Rucola Pizza 23,000 KRW, Shrimp Tomato Pasta: 19,000 KRW, Mushroom Risotto: 20,000 KRW

    Website / soulone.co.kr

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