Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
Museums
부산
A large wooden ship with two sails stands in the middle of a gallery. It is a half-size reconstruction of the vessel used by the Tongsinsa, the Joseon-era diplomatic missions to Japan. The National Maritime Museum of Korea on Yeongdo Islan…
Museums
서울특별시
MMCA Seoul is the city-centre branch of Korea's National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, on Samcheong-ro just east of Gyeongbokgung Palace. It is one of four MMCA venues, alongside Gwacheon, Deoksugung and Cheongju, and opened in No…
Coast & islands
군산시
Bare white rock peaks rise straight out of the sea. This is Mangjubong, with a long stretch of fine sand at its feet and a sea that turns red at sunset. Seonyudo, "the island where immortals play", is the hub of the Gogunsan Islands, a gro…
Historic sites & memorials
군산시
Tucked into a residential lane on the southwestern edge of old Gunsan stands a two-storey timber mansion built for a Japanese landowner during the colonial era, still in almost original condition. Also known as the Hirotsu House, the Japan…
Churches & monasteries
군위군
The Gunwi Buddha Triad Grotto is a cave temple on the northern slopes of Palgongsan, where three Buddhist figures sit in a natural cave halfway up a sheer rock face. Because it predates Seokguram Grotto in Gyeongju and is seen as its forer…
Coast & islands
옹진군
Gureopdo is a small island of just 1.71 km² off Incheon, reached only by changing boats at Deokjeokdo. Fewer than twenty people live here and there are hardly any shops, but its grassy headlands above the sea, sandy beaches and star-filled…
Historic sites & memorials
양주시
This hillside burial ground in Jangheung, Yangju, is the resting place of Gwon Yul (1537–1599), the commander who defeated a Japanese army at Haengjusanseong Fortress during the Imjin War. The general's mound, the graves of his two wives a…
Churches & monasteries
금산군
On the south-eastern slopes of Jinaksan in Geumsan, Boseoksa is a temple better known for the tree in its courtyard than for its halls. A ginkgo believed to be more than 1,000 years old stands here as a Natural Monument, and a fir-lined pa…
Mountains & peaks
제주시
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…
Mountains & peaks
구미시
Geumosan is a 976-metre rocky mountain rising right behind the city of Gumi, and in 1970 it became Korea's first provincial park. A cable car takes you halfway up, where a waterfall, a cliff-face cave and a Goryeo-era rock-carved Buddha fo…
National parks
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Geumjeongsan is a granite mountain rising between central Busan and Yangsan, and in March 2026 it became Korea's 24th national park. From the highest peak, Godangbong (801.5 m), you look down on the Nakdong River and the city, and along th…
Churches & monasteries
서울특별시
Gilsangsa, on a hillside in Seongbuk-dong, began life as Daewongak, one of Seoul's best-known high-end restaurants for entertaining guests. Its owner Kim Young-han donated the land and buildings to the monk Beopjeong, and it became a templ…
Coast & islands
제주시
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…
Churches & monasteries
김제시
Geumsansa is a large temple on the slopes of Moaksan in Gimje, North Jeolla. It is said to have been founded around 599 under the Baekje kingdom and became famous as a centre of devotion to Maitreya, the Buddha of the future. Its huge Mire…
Churches & monasteries
김천시
On the eastern slopes of Hwangaksan, Jikjisa is the head temple of the Jogye Order's 8th district, overseeing 54 branch temples across north-western North Gyeongsang. Its name means "pointing straight with a finger", and there is plenty to…
Historic sites & memorials
김포시
Gimpo Jangneung is the Joseon royal tomb where King Injo's father, Wonjong, and mother, Queen Inheon, lie side by side. Wonjong never sat on the throne in his lifetime; he was made a king only after his son took power, and his grave was ra…
Historic sites & memorials
김해시
A low hill in the middle of Gimhae is the burial ground of the kings and elite of Geumgwan Gaya. Tombs were built here for over 400 years, from the 1st to the 5th century, so the site traces how the small polity of Guya grew into Geumgwan…
Fortresses
김해시
A stone wall roughly 900 m long rings the top of Bunseongsan, the hill on the eastern edge of Gimhae. From the ramparts you look over the city, the Gimhae Plain and the lower Nakdonggang River, and on clear days as far as the sea to the so…
Historic sites & memorials
김해시
In the middle of Gimhae, a round grassy mound sits among lawns and pine woods. The Royal Tomb of King Suro is traditionally identified as the grave of King Suro, founder of Geumgwan Gaya (Garak), one of the Gaya confederacy states. As the…
Historic sites & memorials
김해시
On a pine-covered hill in Gusan-dong, Gimhae, a single round burial mound sits quietly. This is said to be the tomb of Heo Hwang-ok, queen of King Suro, founder of the Geumgwan Gaya kingdom. The Samguk yusa records that she was a princess…
Museums
고흥군
At the far end of Oenarodo Island in Goheung, South Jeolla, the Naro Space Center Space Science Museum stands beside South Korea's first spaceport. On the same island from which the Naro and Nuri rockets lifted off, you can learn how rocke…
Historic sites & memorials
나주시
Naju Geumseonggwan was the gaeksa, the official guesthouse, of Joseon-era Naju. A gaeksa held tablets symbolising the king and lodged officials and envoys visiting the town, and Geumseonggwan's main hall is counted as the largest of all su…
Mountains & peaks
서울특별시
Behind Daehangno, a low hill follows the Seoul City Wall up to its crest: this is Naksan (about 125 m), laid out as Naksan Park. From the wall you look across downtown Seoul to Namsan, and the hill is best known for its night view, when th…
Historic sites & memorials
서울특별시
On the way to Seoul National University, at the foot of Gwanaksan, there is a park with a red-pillared shrine. Nakseongdae means "the place where a star fell": legend says a great star dropped here when Gang Gam-chan (948–1031), the celebr…