8 attractions in Gochang, including Gochang Dolmen Site, Flower Guest Project, Gochang and Munsusa Temple Maple Forest, Gochang.
Historic sites & memorials
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Along the low hills behind Maesan village in Gochang, North Jeolla, some 440 dolmens line up over roughly 1.8 km. Few places in the world hold so many in one spot, and almost every Korean form is here: go-board, table-type and capstone-onl…
Gardens & parks
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In autumn, a farm at the foot of Seonunsan Mountain in Gochang looks as if it has been covered in pink mist. Flower Guest Project (Kkotgaek Project) is a farm-style garden described as the first registered private garden in Jeonbuk Provinc…
Nature
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Halfway up Munsusan (621 m), on the border between Gochang and Jangseong, the last stretch of road to Munsusa Temple runs through a dense grove of centuries-old maples. The Munsusa Maple Forest holds about 500 maples estimated at 100 to 40…
Other
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In spring, red dirt tracks wind through endless waves of green barley; in autumn the same rolling hills turn white with buckwheat flowers. Hakwon Farm in Gongeum-myeon, Gochang, practises landscape farming, choosing crops for how beautiful…
Fortresses
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Gochangeupseong is the walled town that guarded Gochang county in the Joseon era, and its rough stone walls survive almost intact for 1,684 m. You can walk the entire circuit on top of the wall, and inside are rebuilt government buildings…
Museums
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In Seonun-ri, a small village below Soyosan in Buan-myeon, Gochang, the Midang Seo Jeong-ju Poetry Museum honours the poet Seo Jeong-ju (pen name Midang, 1915–2000). Housed in a former village school, it displays the poet's manuscripts, fi…
Churches & monasteries
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A band of camellia forest wraps around the hillside behind the temple. Seonunsa, on the northern slope of Dosolsan in Gochang, North Jeolla, is the head temple of the 24th district of the Jogye Order. Red camellias in early spring, a hermi…
Mountains & peaks
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At just 336 m Seonunsan is not high, but its cliffs, deep valley and ancient temple make it Gochang's signature mountain. It became a provincial park in 1979, and its volcanic rock formations are part of the Jeonbuk West Coast UNESCO Globa…