If you wish to rest with all thoughts set aside but do not want to just spend time in idleness, you seek a cultural space from time to time. Though there are times your fatigued body and mind need to recover by letting physical and mental baggage go, you also need to gain new inspirations by enjoying a cultural life. Located in the arms of the nature and constituted of a gallery, restaurant, etc., Plantation offers a time of letting go and filling up in one place.

Once you enter Plantation, you first walk through a small garden. The greenhouse seated in the garden compels you to take out your camera for some gorgeous pictures. After a pause with your camera, you tread on soil and inhale the fresh smell of grass until you find a beautifully decorated fountain garden. The stroll path set up along the fountain is home of many flowers and trees.

The garden you encounter as you reach the entrance is where the chefs grow organic vegetables themselves. The agricultural produce cultivated at this chefs’ garden is used at the restaurant named Gastro located in Plantation. At the restaurant, you may taste the vegetables you have just seen during your stroll in the garden.

Behind Gastro, a large natural grass field greets you. Children can run around as much as they would like on this 3,000-pyeong playground with no obstacles. Around the field, there is also a camping site where, with a reservation, glamping may be enjoyed with the barbeque service available from Gastro.

As you walk through various cultural spaces situated within a vast forest and focus on the sounds coming from the wind, birds, water, and nature, you may find yourself already healed and rejuvenated.

Written and photos by Park Hee-eun

Website theplantation.co.kr

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