Sokcho Abai Village
Abai Village sits on a sandbar between Sokcho's lagoon and the sea, accessible by a hand-pulled cable ferry that is itself a minor landmark — residents and visitors haul the flat barge across the narrow channel themselves. The village was settled by North Korean refugees from the Hamgyeong province region after the 1950 ceasefire, and their culinary DNA persists: the squid sundae (오징어순대) sold here is a North Korean preparation using real squid stuffed with glass noodles and vegetables, fundamentally different from the pork-blood version common elsewhere. The village became famous through a 2000s TV drama but has retained its working-neighborhood character despite the attention.
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