4 attractions in Chuncheon, including Chuncheon National Museum, Soyang Dam and Uiamho Lake. Map, details and practical tips before you go.
Museums
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Step into the darkened gallery and hundreds of small stone faces look back at you. Smiling, sleepy or tilting their heads, these arhat figures are what made Chuncheon National Museum famous across Korea. Opened on 30 October 2002, the muse…
Industrial heritage
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Soyang Dam blocks the Soyang River north-east of Chuncheon with a 123 m embankment of earth and rock, holding back the vast man-made Lake Soyang. It is the largest rock-fill dam in South Korea, and from the crest the lake stretches away be…
Lakes
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Uiamho Lake is the reason Chuncheon calls itself the "City of Lakes". When the hydroelectric Uiam Dam was built on the middle Bukhangang River in 1967, the waters of the Bukhangang and Soyanggang rivers gathered to form this lake. Water an…
Churches & monasteries
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On the slopes of Obongsan north of Soyang Lake in Chuncheon, Cheongpyeongsa is known as "the temple on an island" because the classic way to reach it is by boat from the Soyang Dam landing. First built in 973, it still has the Goryeo Seonw…