5 attractions in Gumi, including Naksan-ri Ancient Tombs, Gumi, Dorisa Temple, Gumi and Birth Home of President Park Chung-hee.
Historic sites & memorials
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In Haepyeong-myeon, Gumi, low hills east of the Nakdong River are dotted with 205 burial mounds of every size, rising between the pines. These are the Naksan-ri Ancient Tombs, a national Historic Site where generations of Gaya and Silla pe…
Churches & monasteries
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Halfway up Naengsan in Haepyeong-myeon, Gumi, Dorisa is said to have been founded by Ado, the Goguryeo monk who first brought Buddhism to Silla. Its small grounds hold a lot of stories: the legend behind its name, a stone pagoda that looks…
Historic sites & memorials
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On 14 November 1917, a boy was born in a small thatched farmhouse in Sangmo-dong, Gumi, North Gyeongsang Province. He was Park Chung-hee, who would serve as South Korea's president from 1963 to 1979. He lived here while attending primary s…
Mountains & peaks
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Geumosan is a 976-metre rocky mountain rising right behind the city of Gumi, and in 1970 it became Korea's first provincial park. A cable car takes you halfway up, where a waterfall, a cliff-face cave and a Goryeo-era rock-carved Buddha fo…
Caves
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Halfway up Geumosan in Gumi, a natural cave opens like a half-moon in the middle of the sheer cliff beside Daehye Falls. This is Doseongul, named after the late-Silla monk Doseon, famous for geomancy, who is said to have reached enlightenm…