Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Historic sites & memorials
인천광역시
At the foot of Seunghaksan in Munhak-dong, Michuhol-gu, stands Incheon Hyanggyo, the public Confucian school of the old Incheon district. Right beside it is a reconstruction of the Incheon district government office, so you can see both th…
Coast & islands
부산
Ilgwang Beach in Ilgwang-eup, Gijang County, is a compact, bow-shaped bay where you can see both ends of the sand at a glance. The water is shallow and the waves gentle, which makes it good for families, and a small hillock in the middle o…
Coast & islands
울산
Right next to the pine woods of Daewangam Park in Ulsan's Dong-gu district, Ilsan Beach is a fine sandy beach about 600 m long and 40–60 m wide. The water is shallow – around 1–2 m – and usually calm, which makes it a good place for childr…
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…
Museums
부산
When the Korean War forced the government out of Seoul, it made Busan its provisional capital. The Provisional Capital Memorial Hall in Bumin-dong, Seo-gu, is the residence where President Syngman Rhee lived and worked during those years,…
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…
Caves
울산
In Sangbuk-myeon, Ulju-gun, at the foot of Sinbulsan in Ulsan, Amethyst Cave Land is a former amethyst mine turned into a show cave. Its two levels of tunnels run for about 2.5 km, and the temperature stays at 12–16°C all year, cool in sum…
Nature
대전광역시
Jangdong Forest Park, on the slopes of Gyejoksan in Daedeok-gu, Daejeon, is the starting point of the Gyejoksan Red Clay Trail, a barefoot walk on soft red earth. The clay is spread along 14.5 km of forest road that circles the mountainsid…
Coast & islands
통영시
Lying about 1 km west of the southern tip of Geojedo, Jangsado is an island turned entirely into a garden. Its name means "long snake island", after its long, thin shape, and it opened as Jangsado Marine Park (also known as Camellia) in De…
Mountains & peaks
부산
The trail starts right behind the apartment blocks of Haeundae New Town, and within minutes you reach slopes buried under huge boulders. At 634 m, Jangsan is the second-highest mountain in Busan, and the landforms left by volcanic activity…
Museums
울산
Jangsaengpo, once Ulsan's busiest whaling port, is home to Jangsaengpo Whale Museum, the only whale museum in Korea. Huge whale skeletons, whaling gear and models of the old whaling village tell the long story of whales and people here. Th…
Nature
장성군
At the entrance to Danjeon village in Bukha-myeon, Jangseong, a zelkova more than 10 m round spreads its branches in a half-dome beside a small pavilion. The Danjeon-ri Zelkova Tree is a Natural Monument counted among the largest zelkovas…
Churches & monasteries
장성군
At the end of a forest path a wide pond appears, and in it a two-storey pavilion and the white rock peak behind it are reflected upside down. Baegyangsa in Jangseong draws photographers every autumn for that one view. The temple and Baekha…
Historic sites & memorials
장성군
Piramseowon is a Confucian academy founded to honour the scholarship and virtue of Kim In-hu (1510–1560), a Neo-Confucian scholar of the mid-Joseon period. Kim was the only scholar from the Honam region ever enshrined in the National Confu…
Mountains & peaks
장수군
Rising to 1,237 m in the middle of Jangsu County in North Jeolla, Jangansan is famous for the ridge that runs east from its summit, which turns silver with silver grass in autumn. On the shortest route, from Muryong Pass, you reach the gra…
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…
Gardens & parks
서울특별시
At the eastern foot of Namsan, right outside Dongguk University Station, Jangchungdan Park is today a neighbourhood park for walks and exercise, but it began as an altar for those who died for the country. Its name comes from Jangchungdan,…
Nature
대전광역시
On the slopes of Jangtaesan in western Daejeon, some 6,700 dawn redwoods (metasequoias) stand in tall, straight rows. The forest was planted by one man over a lifetime, then taken over by the city of Daejeon and opened to everyone free of…
Coast & islands
삼척시
A small, curving bay, water so clear and jade-green that you can see the bottom, and white rocky islets rising out of it: this view is why Janghohang Port in Geundeok-myeon, Samcheok, is nicknamed the "Naples of Korea". It is a working nat…
Churches & monasteries
장흥군
Borimsa sits on the southern slopes of Gajisan in Jangheung, South Jeolla, and is regarded as the place where Seon (Zen) Buddhism first took root in Korea. Two National Treasures stand within its grounds: an iron Vairocana Buddha cast in 8…
Historic sites & memorials
부산
Rows of low headstones line the lawns of Nam-gu in Busan, and above them fly the flags of twenty-two nations. The United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Korea (UNMCK) is the only UN cemetery in the world, the resting place of about 2,300 serv…
Churches & monasteries
강화군
This temple sits inside an old mountain fortress on Jeongjoksan, on Ganghwa Island. Jeondeungsa is said to have been founded in 381 during the Goguryeo period, which would make it the oldest surviving temple in Korea. It is a place full of…
Museums
서울특별시
The War Memorial of Korea is a large museum of military history on the former site of the Army Headquarters in Yongsan, Seoul. It covers the wars fought on the Korean Peninsula from the Three Kingdoms period to the present, above all the K…