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Bomun-sa is a nearby restored 1,400-year-old temple, behind which, carved into the mountain, is a stone chamber with 22 small stone Buddhas enshrined in individual wall niches behind an altar. The Buddha statues are said to have been caught by a fisherman who dreamt he was instructed by a monk to enshrine them here. Steps lead further above this stone chamber through junipers: at the end of a steep, heart-thumping hike is the massive concave Ma-ae Seakbuljwasang ("Eyebrow Rock" Buddha), sculpted into the granite mountainside. He blissfully overlooks the rice fields, the pale blue Yellow Sea, the setting sun and strangely shaped islands that dissolve into the horizon.

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