Extraordinary You | Jade Garden, Chuncheon — The House They Planted in a Forest

People treat Dan-oh's house as a Seoul villa the cameras never left. The garden around it is this arboretum. Jade Garden opened in April 2011 at 80 Haetgol-gil in Namsan-myeon, Chuncheon, on a 163,500-square-metre slope themed as a small Europe in the forest. Twenty-four garden rooms sit between a Tuscan visitor centre and a high white garden. Hanwha still runs the gates. Last entry is an hour before close. Extraordinary You used the grounds as Eun Dan-oh's family house and the planted walks around it. Other dramas had already found the same European rooms. This one needed a house that looked written rather than rented. The production put the family inside a landscape that already charged admission. The shuttle from Gulbongsan Station on the Gyeongchun Line still runs. You buy a ticket and walk the woodchip path called Namunaeum-gil. The house façade is not a museum exhibit. The plants are. Walk past the fountain they used for other shows. Stop where the trees close over the path. That is the part of the house the script could not build.