5 attractions in Boryeong, including Muchangpo Beach, Daecheon Beach and Seongjusa Temple Site, Boryeong. Map, details and practical tips before you go.
Coast & islands
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A few times a month, when the tide drops especially low, the sea off Muchangpo parts and a path about 1.5 km long appears all the way to the uninhabited islet of Seokdaedo. Muchangpo was also the first beach on Korea's west coast to open t…
Coast & islands
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About two and a half hours from Seoul by train, halfway down the west coast, a beach so long you can barely see its end stretches along the shore. Daecheon Beach is the largest beach on Korea's west coast, about 3.5 km long and 100 m wide.…
Churches & monasteries
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Head east from central Boryeong into the valleys of Seongjusan and you reach a wide lawn ringed by mountains, with four stone pagodas standing in a row. This is the site of Seongjusa, once one of the great Zen monasteries of Silla. Its hal…
Fortresses
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On a hill behind Ocheon Harbour in Boryeong stand the stone walls of what was once the naval headquarters of Joseon's Chungcheong Province. The fortress looks out over the mouth of Cheonsu Bay, so from the walls you take in the sea, the is…
Gardens & parks
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Sanghwawon turns an entire small island, Jukdo at the end of the Nampo Seawall in Boryeong, into a garden. A roofed corridor runs right round the island, so you can walk the shoreline even in the rain, and tucked inside it are old hanok ho…