46 attractions in Jeju Province, including Geomunoreum, Jeju National Museum and Geum Oreum. Map, details and practical tips before you go.
Mountains & peaks
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Jeju has more than 360 oreum, its small volcanic cones, but only one is part of the UNESCO World Natural Heritage site: Geomunoreum. Lava from this volcano flowed northeast all the way to the coast, creating some 20 lava tubes, including M…
Museums
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Jeju was once home to its own kingdom, Tamna. Jeju National Museum is an archaeology and history museum built around the story of this island state, covering Jeju's history and culture from prehistory to the Joseon period. Opened on 15 Jun…
Mountains & peaks
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Rising above the farmland of Geumak-ri in Hallim, western Jeju, Geum Oreum is a volcanic cone with a large round crater at the top. It stands 427.5 m above sea level but only about 178 m above its base, so a short climb brings you to the r…
Coast & islands
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Gimnyeong Beach in Gujwa, on Jeju's northeast coast, formed where white sand piled up on top of flat black lava rock. The shallow water glows a clear turquoise, and a line of wind turbines turns along the horizon. With lava tubes such as M…
Museums
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Behind the glass sits a computer that looks like a wooden box. It is an Apple I, one of the few that still work. The Nexon Computer Museum, near Halla Arboretum in Jeju City, was opened by the game company Nexon on 27 July 2013. Its big dr…
Coast & islands
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Off the coast of Jungmun in Seogwipo, black stone columns stand packed together along the cliffs as if someone had carved them. Daepo Jusangjeolli Cliff is a stretch of shore made of basalt columns, formed when lava cooled and cracked at t…
Waterfalls
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Water from Hallasan splits into two streams deep in a Seogwipo forest and drops into an emerald pool. Donnaeko is a valley in Sanghyo-dong, Seogwipo, and Wonang Falls inside it is only about 5 m high, but its water is famously cold even in…
Coast & islands
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Marado is the southernmost island of South Korea. It lies about 11 km south of Moseulpo and covers just 0.3 km², so you can walk around the whole island in a little over an hour. Black basalt cliffs ring a flat, grassy plateau, and at the…
Nature
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Step into this forest in Gujwa-eup, eastern Jeju, and the canopy closes over you, formed by thick, twisted trunks with wide-spreading branches. Bijarim Forest (officially the Torreya Forest of Pyeongdae-ri) is a stand of thousands of centu…
Nature
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In the mid-mountain belt on the eastern flank of Hallasan, at about 500–600 m above sea level, a path of red volcanic scoria runs for miles between tall cedars and cypresses. Saryeoni Forest Path stretches roughly 15 km from Bijarim-ro tow…
Mountains & peaks
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Rising like a bell from the flat fields of southwest Jeju, Sanbangsan is a 395 m mountain made of a single mass of lava. It is counted among Jeju's three great mountains alongside Hallasan and Seongsan Ilchulbong, and a Buddha is enshrined…
Mountains & peaks
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Drive along the Pyeonghwa-ro road across western Jeju and a rounded hill rising from the open fields catches your eye. Saebyeol Oreum in Bongseong-ri, Aewol, is a small volcanic cone whose slopes turn into a sea of silver grass in autumn,…
Coast & islands
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The highest point on the island is barely 20 m above sea level. Wherever you stand on Gapado you can see the sea, and in spring, beyond the barley fields that cover most of the island, Sanbangsan, Songaksan and on clear days even Hallasan…
Museums
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This public museum is devoted to a single fruit, the citrus that Jeju is famous for. Galleries cover its history, cultivation and industry, while a glasshouse behind the building shows citrus varieties from around the world bearing fruit i…
Coast & islands
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On the coast just west of central Seogwipo, at the end of a path through pine woods, a lone pillar of rock rises out of the sea. Oedolgae means "the solitary rock", a name earned by the way it stands alone in the water. This stack, about 2…
Waterfalls
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Walk down the steps onto a shore of round boulders and you see water falling from the top of the cliff, crossing a rock pool and mixing straight into the waves. Jeongbang Waterfall lies about 1.5 km south-east of central Seogwipo, and the…
Other
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Under the arcade roof in the middle of old Seogwipo, an artificial stream with fish and water plants runs down the centre of the market lane. Seogwipo Maeil Olle Market is the largest and oldest permanent market in Seogwipo, where tangerin…
Coast & islands
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South of Seongsan Ilchulbong, at the end of a green headland jutting into the sea, rises a red volcanic cone topped by a white lighthouse. Seopjikoji is a cape on the coast of Seongsan-eup in Seogwipo, with windswept grassland, black basal…
Mountains & peaks
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Seongsan Ilchulbong is a 182 m volcano rising from the sea at the eastern tip of Jeju, in Seongsan-eup, Seogwipo. Jagged rocks ring a huge bowl-shaped crater like the walls of a fortress, so you can recognise it from far away. In 2007, tog…
Mountains & peaks
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At Jeju's southwestern tip, a low volcano juts into the sea, and from its rim Sanbangsan, the Hyeongjeseom islets, Gapado and Marado line up in a row. Songaksan is a double-crater volcano, one crater nested inside another. Under its coasta…
Coast & islands
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Soesokkak is the mouth of the Hyodoncheon stream, which runs down the southern slopes of Hallasan and meets the sea in Hahyo-dong, Seogwipo. Just before the shore the stream widens into a deep pool framed by cliffs of solidified lava and p…
Mountains & peaks
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Suwolbong is a low volcanic cone, just 77 m high, on the coast at Gosan-ri at the far western tip of Jeju. The summit itself looks ordinary, but the sea cliffs below expose layers of volcanic ash laid down in an eruption about 18,000 years…
Historic sites & memorials
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Between fields of potatoes and garlic stands a row of low, grass-covered humps. Get closer and you see open concrete mouths: hangars built to hide Japanese fighter planes. Alddreu means "the lower plain" in the Jeju dialect, and on this pl…
Theme parks
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Ecoland is a theme park on the east side of Jeju where a small train modelled on an old steam locomotive loops through the Gyorae gotjawal forest. Stations sit along a circular line of about 4.5 km, so you hop off at each one to walk a lak…