Winter Sonata | Balwangsan Dragon Peak — Snow at 1,458 Metres

People treat the Nami Island kiss as the last snow the series needed. The high snow is here. Balwangsan rises to 1,458 metres above Yongpyong. The tourist gondola from Dragon Plaza covers 3.7 kilometres one way and takes about eighteen minutes. At the top, Dragon Peak looks over the ridge and, on a clear day, toward Gangneung and the East Sea. Yoon Seok-ho used this summit for the adult winter: snowmen, a kiss in weather that actually holds, the line the resort still prints on its tour page. The golf-course second hole lower on the mountain is where Min-hyung hid the Polaris necklace in a snowball. The summit is the one you can still reach without a ski pass if the cable car is running. Wind closes the line on some Mondays and on storm days. When it is open, the cabin is the same long ride the drama used as a private room in public. You step out onto packed snow and the town below looks small enough to leave.