I was looking for a story about a team that had gone to measure 'The worlds smallest island' and when they got there and measured it, they were just about to leave when they spotted another island nearby which was even smaller. I couldn't find that story, but while looking I did discover this...

This can serve as the inaugural post on a thread that I was surprised to find did not already exist. I've been too busy to post this for a couple of weeks, but I recently visited Sokcho on the west coast of Korea for the second time and found something novel: 갯배 명당 / "(The) Cable Ferry Famous...

This concerns "known species thought locally extinct", rather than "uncatalogued mystery species" -- but I was intrigued to find it cited recently; on another message board, of the "about everything under the sun" variety. The species concerned is the Siberian / Korean tiger (Panthera tigris...

1.Shifting / vanished river; Gyeongju City outskirts On my first trip to Korea last century, I literally stumbled upon an archeological site over 500 years old called Poseokjeong. It features a carved stone trough which originally decanted water from a neighbouring river just next to it...

Edit to amend title.