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Crash Landing on You: Switzerland and the Stand-In North

Yoon Se-ri, a South Korean chaebol heiress, is paragliding when a tornado carries her across the border into North Korea. Ri Jeong-hyeok hides her, and the two fall in love despite the division between their countries. The series' Switzerland is the real thing: a mountain pass, a lake pier, a gorge bridge and a cable-car station, all shot on location. The series was pieced together from stand-ins: a Jeju forest for the DMZ, a Chungju park for a South Korean reunion, and sets in Hoengseong and Chungju for the northern village. This route follows the story in episode order, from Se-ri's landing in a Jeju forest to the reunion above Grindelwald. Nothing was filmed in North Korea: the Pyongyang and Kaesong stations were played by Ulaanbaatar, and the DMZ scenes by several of Jeju's oreums.

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Pachinko: From Yeongdo to Osaka

Sunja grows up in her mother's boarding house on Yeongdo, an island in the harbour of Busan, under Japanese rule. Pregnant by a married man, she marries a gentle minister instead and leaves with him for Osaka, where Koreans live poor and despised in a neighbourhood called Ikaino. The Apple TV+ series (2022–2024), based on Min Jin Lee's 2017 novel, follows four generations of her family from 1915 to 1989. The route follows the family through real places in Korea and Japan, in story order. Homes, shops and offices in the series are fictional, so the pins mark the neighbourhoods and cities where the story is set, not filming locations.

7 locations3/7 visitable