Wolcheon Village School is built by Wolcheon Jo Mok for training the younger generation. Jo Mok was taught by Toegye Yi Hwang and focused solely on research. Dosan Seowon-gil is a way where a teacher and student meet, and it has Dosan Seowon where Toegye Yi Hwang returned in his later years to study and teach students, his tomb where he is laid to rest, Wonchonmaeul that descendants of Toegye Yi Hwang lived a poor but honest life. This section of the Dosan Gugok-gil is filled with the spirit of Toegye Yi Hwang than any other.

Wonchon, a place where Yi Yuksa was born, faces south and is surrounded by mountains like a folding screen, and vast fertile fields in front and a gently flowing river beyond which makes the place a quintessential baesanimsu, which means mountain in the back and a river in the front. Even though it was a remote mountain village, there were families of Champan, Daegam, Jinsa, Sangju, Asan, Neodarae, Eonyang, Byeongseong, Seoul, and Yeonghye in Wonchon before flooding as a land of meditation naturally gives rise to talented people. However, only four houses remain today including the wooden old house where Yi Ok-bi, Yi Yuksa’s daughter, lives and a literary museum commemorating Yi Yuksa who is a representative man of Wonchon at the village entrance.

Olmijae shows off the best scenery of Andong. Anyone who visits here think Gosanjeong Pavilion, Nongam Head House, and Wolmyeongdam are the best pavilion, head house, and swamp in Korea. Toegye considered Wolmyeongdam with moonlight as a pond that makes rain. There is Gosanjeong Pavilion which is considered the most beautiful in Korea up from Wolmyeongdam toward Cheongnyangsan/ Nearby is a shrine dedicated to King Gongmin and Princess Noguk where Gasong-ri residents have a village ritual every year during Jeongwol Daeboreum(the day of the first full moon of the lunar year).

The water flowing from Cheongnyangsan could not cross the mountain and it went around Wangmosanseong, and it made a picturesque scenery of river called Naesalmi and Baegunji as the mountain could not invade the water. Nearby is Cheongnyangsan, and if you look up, you’ll see Kalseondae where Yi Yuksa used to get ideas for a poem and Wangmosanseong with Wolranjeongsa where literature debate was held on spring days when azaleas bloomed since Toegye Yi Hwang’s time.

The river in the sixth route flows peacefully enough to sing the song “Jeokbyeokga”. There is Wolcheon Seodang on one side in Darae, where Jo Mok, a great man in Toegye’s academic circle, was born. And across the river, there are Seongje Jongtaek of the Bonghwa Geum family who made the proud Bupo and the Beonnam Gotaek of the Jinseong Yi family. Especially in Bupo, Yeokdong Seowon by U T’ak who is a pioneer of Korean Neo-Confucianism, fertile lands and Burawonru Pavilion which has lasted for a thousand years are located, and the riverside pine forest “Sapyeongsong” adds great atmosphere and they are serving as a rest area for visitors.

You can find Songgok House, Seonseong Gate, Hoegye Seowon, and Yean Haynggyo along the way, and the Korean Studies Institute serves as a capital of the area by preserving and collecting woodblocks, and disseminating the spirit of Andong through translaton. There is the Forest Museum on the way to Dosan, following the route 35. Once you reach Dosan, you will see the head house of Nosongjeong, and on the right side, Sugokam, the first temple built by Toegye, the head house of Onye Lee Hae, and the memorial stone for Songjae Lee Woo, and Dosan Hot Spring on the other side can be found.

This area preserves the legacy of Prince Maeui, Kim Il, who led a faction that resisted joining Gorye and strived to revive Silla. These traces remain in the place names and legends surrounding Yongdu Mountain and Taeja Mountain. Places including Sinnam-ri which means the soutern Silla, Sillajae, Turtle Shaped Pedestal of Taejasa Temple Site, Maeui Platform halfway up Yongdusan Mountain where Prince Maeui used to climb and look down at the ruined country of Silla, Dallaejae-gil which has the sorrow of Prince Maeui, Geonjisan Mountain and Tugubong Peak where soldiers were trained to restore the country evoke deep emotions in people reflecting on the history of honor and disgrace.

Toegye’s students mastered calligraphy travelling between Suunjeong and Geonjisan and devoted themselves to the calligraphy and pursued their careers through writings. The Seonseong Gate in Dosan Seoburi has the calligraphy of Yi Sook-ryang, and the tombstone of Toegye has that of Geumbo. It was rare for all students of a teacher are good calligraphers, so they were full of praise.