Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
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Historic sites & memorials
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Over the ridge from Cheonghak-dong on Jirisan, at about 850 m above sea level, stone towers and dry-stone walls climb the hillside in terraces. Samseonggung is a place of worship and spiritual practice dedicated to Hwanin, Hwanung and Dang…
Churches & monasteries
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Ssanggyesa sits on the southern foothills of Jirisan, in Hwagae-myeon, Hadong County, at the spot where two mountain streams meet. It was founded in 722, and in its courtyard still stands a stele composed and written by Choe Chi-won, the m…
Other
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On a hillside above the wide Akyang plain in Hadong, at the foot of Jirisan, stands a house that first existed only in a novel. Choi Champandaek recreates the family home of Choi Seo-hui, heroine of Park Kyung-ni's epic novel Toji (The Lan…
Nature
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Halfway up the hill behind Daechuk village in Akyang, Hadong, a pine tree sits astride a huge flat boulder. Its roots have split the rock and wrapped around it, as if the tree had no need for soil at all. This is Munamsong (文岩松), and from…
Other
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Where the Seomjingang River meets the Hwagaecheon stream, with Hadong in Gyeongsang Province on one bank and Gurye in Jeolla Province on the other, sits Hwagae Market. For generations people from the two regions crossed here to trade goods…
Museums
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On the southern slopes of Jirisan, on the road up to Ssanggyesa Temple in Hwagae-myeon, the Hadong Wild Tea Museum is a public museum about the tea culture of Hwagae, known as the place where tea growing began in Korea. It tells the story…