Samyang Farm: Wind, Livestock, Guinong, Cowboy
Samyang Ranch opened in 1972, during the Saemaul Undong (새마을 운동) push to modernise rural Korea. What grew here is a layered place: American agricultural methods, European livestock, Western leisure imagery, all carried by the same highland wind.
At 850 to 1,500 metres, Samyang sits high enough that wind is the first thing you notice. It moves through the grass, the fences, the rows of pinwheels staked along the paths.
The turbines on the ridgeline are part of the same fact. Wind is what the ranch was built to work with, not around.