Located in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, Roast Factory is a restaurant adopting the style of glamping where customers can enjoy a camping-like experience barbecuing without the hassle of setting up the camp. If you have felt the distance between the tables at an ordinary restaurant too narrow for you to truly enjoy the bbq time, Roast Factory suggests an alternative that is effective and satisfactory. It has a simple user manual. Make a reservation first, buy meat and other ingredients at the on-site market, and barbecue away. The user fee is 10,000 won per person and must be prepaid upon reservation. The market is stocked with pretty much everything you would ever need for an outdoor barbecue, such as various cuts of meat, instant noodles, drinks, and packaged snacks, and the user fee includes access to the self-service bar at the restaurant, charcoal, and other necessary utensils.

Originally famous as the breed of dog used for hunting tigers, Pungsan dogs are native to the Pungsan region in Yanggang-do, North Korea. There is a Pungsan dog village in Deoksan-ri, Anseong, Gyeonggi-do, with an exclusive Pungsan dog farm and a theme park with the particular canine population in the hundreds. Once in the village, visitors can walk along the Metasequoia trail until they reach a dining cafe dubbed Poongsanirang. Operated by Anseong Pungsan Dog Experience Farm, the cafe became trendy on social media as an ideal place for a picnic, complete with outdoor tables placed on an expansive field of grass. Naturally cafe customers can interact with Pungsan dogs outside the cafe. Along with the run-of-the-mill cafe menu, an instant noodle kit allowing customers to cook their own ramyun on the grassy yard is high on the popularity list.

The beautiful scenery and amazing weather do it all in Jeju. Be it a cafe or a restaurant, if the quality of food takes up 40 percent of its business outlook, the surrounding view fills the remaining 60 percent. Moregidong Tarzan located in Seogwipo is also a cafe that entertains your eye first. While there are a great many Jeju cafes facing the ocean, Moregidong Tarzan stands in the center of a cedar grove and presents a pleasing view of Mt. Hallasan. We recommend enjoying a fall picnic in a tent in the backyard which has a small wooden table and chairs, instead of spending time just inside the cafe. The tall cedar trees filling the space behind the tent might give you a sensation that you are standing in a forest in a Scandinavian country.

When you are out camping or having a picnic, it would be the weather that bothers you the most. If it rains or snows, your plan of having a day out is out the window. A tent would keep you dry from the elements but you wouldn’t be able to fully take in the natural surroundings that way. Located in Paju, Gyeonggi-do, outdoor picnic ground Gamsungdome Picnic is relatively free from the restraints of the weather. Instead of using regular canvas or nylon fabric, the dome structure uses a sheet made of polycarbonate pieces that go on top of the aluminium frame of the dome.

For those who can’t satisfy themselves just with the camp-like atmosphere, you should move onto the next stage, which is glamping. In Wonju, Gangwon Province, there is a camping ground which is just as hard to book as a ticket to an idol group’s concert. The place only open to visitors who have snatched a spot through an advanced reservation is called CAMPASLOW. It is a compound expression combining campa, a Swedish word for ‘camping’ and ‘slow’.