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The bird's-eye view of the Paengmagang River Valley makes the hike to the oldest Paekche fortress above Nak'waam Rock well worthwhile. Nak' waam Rock is the site of a tragic legend. Some 3,000 women of the Paekche court leapt to their deaths here to avoid dishonor at the hands of their enemies during the fall of the Paekche Kingdom. The image of the women plummeting down in their colorful dresses gave the place its name, "Rock of Falling Flowers."
{Korean history. there are 'source flowers' also. two beautiful royal women who quarrelled and died.
and a buddhist monk from Korea who went from there to India and up the Ganges then into Central Asia and on to Iran and the edge of eastern Europe. then turned back and became a translator of buddhist holy texts, in China where he died aged 83. beginning this journey in 724. when he was 20 years old. these are all from reading Roger Tennant's history of Korea, which is moderately poetic if grammatically a little difficult}