Verified coast & islands in Wando County — descriptions, map and practical info.
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Gogeumdo, an island in Wando County, is where Admiral Yi Sun-sin set up his last headquarters. In 1598, the final year of the Japanese invasions of Korea, the Korean and Chinese Ming navies made camp together on Myodangdo at the island's e…
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Off the south-west of Wando, Bogildo is best known as the island where the Joseon poet Yun Seon-do stopped on his way to Jeju and stayed to build a garden retreat. Yet the island as a whole has much more to offer: the Yesong-ri pebble beac…
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Floating in the sea east of Wando, this island is written with the characters for "birthday" (生日), which is why it is known as Birthday Island. A giant birthday-cake sculpture greets you at Seoseong Port, and a coastal trail leads past bla…
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Soando, an island in the sea south of Wando, greets arriving boats with a stone reading "Land of resistance, island of liberation". During Japanese rule it produced an unusually large number of independence activists for its size, and it i…
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Tucked against the east side of Wando's main island, Sinjido is linked by bridge, so you can drive straight in without a ferry. Its south coast is lined by Sinji Myeongsasimni, a 3.8 km sandy beach that was the first in Asia to earn the in…
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Cross two bridges from the Haenam Peninsula at the southwestern tip of the Korean mainland and you arrive on Wando, the main island of Wando County. At 90.1 km² it is the eighth-largest island in South Korea, and in the Silla period it was…
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Fifty minutes by boat from Wando harbour, Cheongsando, the island that stays green all year, was named Asia's first Slow City. Stone-walled lanes, terraced gudeuljang rice paddies and hillsides covered in yellow rapeseed flowers in spring…