110 attractions in Gyeonggi Province, including Waujeongsa Temple, Simgokseowon Confucian Academy and Glass Island Museum.
Churches & monasteries
용인시
On the slopes of Yeonhwasan in Haegok-dong, Yongin, Waujeongsa greets you with a golden Buddha head 8 m tall at its entrance. More than 3,000 Buddha statues brought from India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand and other countries are scattered…
Historic sites & memorials
용인시
Between the high-rise apartment blocks near Sanghyeon Station on the Sinbundang Line stands a Confucian academy founded in 1605. Simgokseowon honours Jo Gwang-jo (1482–1519), the reform-minded scholar who led a drive to remake government u…
Museums
안산시
Glass Island is a glass-art museum and cultural complex at the western edge of Daebudo, Ansan, looking out over tidal flats and West Sea sunsets. Billed as "Korea's Murano", its site of about 43,000 m² brings together a gallery of contempo…
Mountains & peaks
양평군
Rising to 862 m on the border between Gapyeong and Yangpyeong counties in Gyeonggi Province, Yumyeongsan has a summit ridge so open that a paragliding launch sits right beside the top. On its northern slope is Korea's first natural recreat…
Gardens & parks
성남시
Yuldong Park wraps around a reservoir tucked among low wooded hills on the eastern edge of Bundang, Seongnam. The lakeside path is about 2.5 km long and takes around 40 minutes at an easy pace, with lawns, a book-themed garden and a reed b…
Churches & monasteries
의왕시
Cheonggyesa is a Jogye Order temple set in the woods on the southern slopes of Cheonggyesan in Uiwang. One family looked after it for nearly 500 years from the Goryeo period, it is where Master Gyeongheo, who revived Korean Seon Buddhism i…
Other
의정부시
This short street is the place to find out, over a single meal, how budae-jjigae (army stew), a pot of ham, sausage and kimchi, became the signature dish of a whole city. The restaurants cluster around Hoguk-ro 1309beon-gil, next to the si…
Churches & monasteries
의정부시
In a residential street near Uijeongbu Station stands a small stone church wrapped in ivy. It was built in 1953, as the Korean War was ending, with donations from Catholic soldiers of the US Army stationed in Uijeongbu, and today it is pre…
Gardens & parks
고양시
Ilsan Lake Park was created when the Ilsan new town was built: planners filled a stretch of empty land with water to make an artificial lake. The park covers about 1.03 million m², of which the lake alone takes up about 300,000 m², with wa…
Gardens & parks
수원시
Suwon Arboretum Irwol, beside Irwol Reservoir in Jangan-gu, is an urban arboretum that opened in May 2023. Its 101,500 m² hold 2,016 plant species, and a large exhibition greenhouse filled with plants from desert and Mediterranean-type cli…
Historic sites & memorials
파주시
Imjingak is a visitor site on the banks of the Imjin River in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, created in 1972 to console people who cannot return to their hometowns because of the division of Korea. The Mangbaedan altar, the Freedom Bridge and a…
Historic sites & memorials
용인시
This is the house where Chang Ucchin (1917–1990), one of Korea's first generation of Western-style painters, spent his final years. Squeezed between apartment blocks in Mabuk-dong, Yongin, it keeps a late-Joseon Gyeonggi farmhouse alongsid…
Coast & islands
화성시
Jebudo is an island the sea swallows its road to twice a day. The 2.3 km causeway linking it to the mainland lies below the high-tide line, so when the tide comes in the road disappears under water for three to four hours at a time. Drivin…
Museums
양주시
Up on a hillside in Gwangjeok-myeon, Yangju, the Lighting Museum traces the history of light from torches and oil lamps to modern electric fittings and contemporary light art. It was founded in 2004 by the lighting company Feelux and regis…
Mountains & peaks
포천시
Rising to 813 m where the borders of Pocheon, Gapyeong and Namyangju meet, Jugeumsan is known locally as "Silk Mountain". In late April its summit ridge turns pink with azaleas, and near the top stand Dokbawi, a sheer rock tower, and an oc…
Historic sites & memorials
양평군
On a slope behind Jipyeong-myeon, a village in eastern Yangpyeong known for its rice wine and country market, stands Jipyeong Hyanggyo. It was the state school of the old Jipyeong county in the Joseon period and a shrine where rites were o…
Mountains & peaks
남양주시
Rising in the middle of Namyangju, Cheonmasan stands 812 m according to its summit stone, making it one of the higher peaks you can reach from eastern Seoul by train. True to its name, which means "the mountain that touches the sky", it is…
Museums
의왕시
Next to Uiwang Station on Seoul Subway Line 1, right beside the tracks of the Gyeongbu Line, stands the Korea Railroad Museum. Its outdoor yard is lined with real rolling stock, from the presidential coach used by every president from Syng…
Mountains & peaks
과천시
Spanning Seocho-gu in Seoul and the Gyeonggi cities of Gwacheon, Seongnam and Uiwang, Cheonggyesan is southern Seoul's go-to mountain, with the Shinbundang Line running almost to the trailhead. True to its name ("clear valley mountain"), i…
Lakes
가평군
Cheongpyeong Lake was created when the Cheongpyeong Dam blocked the Bukhangang River, about 50 km from Seoul. Water-sports centres, guesthouses and cafés line its mountain-ringed shores, making it one of the easiest lakeside getaways from…
Museums
과천시
The Chusa Museum, run by the city of Gwacheon, brings together the life, scholarship and art of Chusa Kim Jeong-hui (1786–1856), the late-Joseon scholar and calligrapher. It opened on 3 June 2013 right next to Gwaji Chodang, the cottage wh…
Mountains & peaks
남양주시
Rising on the border of Sudong-myeon in Namyangju and Gapyeong County, Chungnyeongsan (879 m) has a story in its very name. Legend says that Yi Seong-gye, the future founder of the Joseon dynasty, came hunting here at the end of the Goryeo…
Museums
광명시
When King Injo heard that his elderly chief minister was living in a thatched house with a leaking roof, he had a new one built for him in 1630 and named it Gwangamdang (觀感堂), "the hall for seeing and being moved". The minister was Ori Yi…
Historic sites & memorials
파주시
North of Paju's Unjeong new town, Bronze Age dolmens lie scattered through the pine woods on the slopes of Jangmyeongsan. The Dayul-ri and Dangha-ri Dolmens form the largest dolmen group in northern Gyeonggi-do, the survivors of more than…