4 attractions in Yangyang County, including Naksansa Temple, Naksan Beach and Seollimwon Temple Site, Yangyang.
Churches & monasteries
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Naksansa was founded in 671 by the Silla monk Uisang on Obongsan, right on the East Sea coast, and it is one of Korea's most important sites of devotion to Gwaneum, the bodhisattva of compassion. The cliff-top hermitage of Hongnyeonam, wit…
Coast & islands
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From the mouth of the Namdaecheon, which flows down from Seoraksan, to the foot of the hill where Naksansa Temple stands, a strip of sand runs for 1,810 m. Since it opened in 1963, Naksan Beach has drawn more than a million visitors every…
Historic sites & memorials
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Deep in the Micheongol valley in Seo-myeon, Yangyang, a forest path climbs to a temple site where a pagoda, a stone lantern and a stele stand scattered against the hillside. The Seollimwon Temple Site belonged to a 9th-century monastery of…
Other
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Where the Seoraksan and Odaesan mountains meet, in the middle of Yangyang-eup in Gangwon Province, Yangyang Traditional Market comes fully alive on dates ending in 4 and 9, when one of the biggest five-day markets on the northern east coas…