64 attractions in South Chungcheong, including Oeam Folk Village, Asan, Hyeonchungsa Shrine and Anmyondo Jurassic Museum.
Old towns & squares
아산시
Thatched cottages and tiled mansions linked by stone-walled lanes climb the foot of Seolhwasan at Oeam, a Joseon-era aristocratic village that is still lived in. Since the village took shape around 500 years ago it has been home to the Yea…
Historic sites & memorials
아산시
This shrine honours Admiral Yi Sun-sin, the naval commander who led Joseon's fleet during the Japanese invasions of the 1590s. The grounds in Asan were also his home in his younger years, so alongside the hall that holds his portrait you c…
Museums
태안군
Anmyondo Jurassic Museum is a natural history museum in Nam-myeon, Taean, on the road into Anmyeondo island, and it is often cited for having Korea's largest collection of genuine dinosaur fossils. Since opening on 5 July 2011 it has drawn…
Historic sites & memorials
예산군
On 29 April 1932, in Hongkou Park in Shanghai, the independence activist Yun Bong-gil (1908–1932), known by his pen name Maeheon, threw a bomb that killed or wounded senior Japanese military and civil leaders. He was born and raised in the…
Fortresses
예산군
Imjonseong, ringing the summit of Bongsusan in Daeheung-myeon, Yesan, became the last stronghold of the Baekje restoration movement after the kingdom fell. With a circumference of about 2.45 km it is counted as the largest of all Baekje mo…
Historic sites & memorials
천안시
Out in the fields of Seonghwan near Cheonan, a lone stele stands on the back of a stone turtle. It records the founding of Bongseon Honggyeongsa, a temple built by King Hyeonjong of Goryeo, and it is a National Treasure. The temple vanishe…
Gardens & parks
천안시
Cheonan Samgeori Park commemorates the Cheonan crossroads made famous across Korea by the folk song Heungtaryeong and its line about the weeping willows of Cheonan Samgeori. First laid out in the 1970s, it spent years mainly as an event gr…
Nature
논산시
East of central Nonsan, the stream coming down from Daedunsan was dammed to create Tapjeong Reservoir (Tapjeongho), the second-largest reservoir in South Chungcheong. In winter tens of thousands of migratory birds such as whooper swans and…
Nature
태안군
Behind the Sinduri coastal dunes in Taean, ringed by pine woods, lies a small pond called Duung Wetland. It formed when wind-blown sand piled up into dunes, cut off the sea and trapped fresh water behind them. The open water is only about…
Coast & islands
태안군
At the north-western tip of the Taean Peninsula, wind-built dunes spread out behind Sinduri Beach. These are the largest coastal sand dunes in Korea, designated a Natural Monument in 2001. Walking the boardwalks, you pass grassy hummocks,…
Coast & islands
태안군
Two rocky islets sit side by side off the beach, and in the evening the sun goes down behind them. This view from Kkotji Beach on Anmyeondo is counted among the classic sunsets of Korea's west coast. Anmyeondo stretches south from the Taea…
National parks
태안군
Stretching along 198 km of coastline around the Taean Peninsula and Anmyeondo Island in South Chungcheong, Taeanhaean National Park is Korea's only coastal national park. It was designated in 1978 as the country's 13th national park and co…
Mountains & peaks
서산시
Eight rocky knobs rise in a row from the fields of Palbong-myeon, Seosan, topping out at 362 m. It is not high, but after iron stairs and a squeeze through a rock tunnel the summit opens onto the mudflats and sea of Garorim Bay on the Taea…
Churches & monasteries
당진시
On a low hill south of Hapdeok-eup in Dangjin, South Chungcheong, a pair of red-brick twin bell towers looks out over the rice fields. This is Hapdeok Catholic Church, which began as the first parish in the Chungcheong region; the present…
Churches & monasteries
서산시
Beside the Haemi Stream in Seosan, the Haemi International Sanctuary stands where more than 1,000 Catholics, brought from across Chungcheong Province during the late-Joseon persecutions, were executed and buried alive. It lies just over a…
Historic sites & memorials
홍성군
This shrine holds the portrait and spirit tablet of Im Deuk-ui (1558–1612), the Joseon general who helped crush the Yi Mong-hak Rebellion in the middle of the Imjin War. Together with his tomb and memorial stele on Cheongnyongsan in Seobu-…