Best Glamping South Korea

Proud glampers: we’ve found you a new can’t-miss spot. Ardent anti-glampers: stick around, this one just might turn ya.

Located on Jejudo, a two-million-year-old volcanic island in the Korea Strait between South Korea and Japan, Around Follie is a sprawling campground with half a dozen different sleeping options, each a shade more impressive than the last.

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Around Follie offers “grass” camping, “deck” camping, auto-homes, 31-foot Airstreams, and a series of huts in ascending size — lofts, suites and the pool villa. Grass camping gets you a tent and a patch of grass lit by some Edison bulbs. The pool villa gets you three colossal stone huts with outdoor and indoor pools, plus leather couches, spiral staircases and a rooftop bathtub. Each space, though, has access to the mess hall: A.Ground. It’s a lobby you actaully want to spend time in, acting as a cafe, restaurant, bar, and observatory for visitors. And a pretty effective equalizer, too, a place where folks are living 65 feet from each other, but paying vastly different amounts per night.

While Around Follie might just seem manicured and manufactured (you can tell it poses for the ‘gram, as do all glamgrounds), its location on Jejudo shouldn’t be minimized. Centered around now-dormant Mount Hassan, the South Korean islet owns fields of pink-and-yellow wildflowers, endless beaches, a volcanic crater, basalt plains and a cavernous “lava tube.” Adventures will be aplenty, so don’t feel too ashamed about how soft your sheets are.

For more information on booking a cabin, head here.

Images via Byung-geun Lee / ArchDaily / Around Follie

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Tanner Garrity

Tanner Garrity is a senior editor at InsideHook, where he’s covered wellness, travel, sports and pop culture since 2017. He also authors The Charge, InsideHook’s weekly wellness newsletter. Beyond the newsroom, he can usually be found running, skating, reading, writing fiction or playing tennis. He lives in Brooklyn.