Taesong-dong Restaurants

There is plenty of take-away food here, and you there are benches everywhere. However, we found a wonderful little spot don by the small pool in the angle between the path to the Freedom Bridge and the railway approach. Just take your food down the path – virtually no-one comes down here and you will have the space and time to ponder the bridge and the river.

Until 1976, access was permitted to soldiers of both sides throughout this zone, but after a particularly gruesome event in 1976 in which two American soldiers were hacked to death by North Korean soldiers wielding axes, a Median Demarcation Line was agreed. Now only American and South Korean troops will be found in the southern sector, and only North Korean and Chinese troops in the northern part.