16 attractions in Seogwipo, including Donnaeko Valley and Wonang Falls, Marado Island and Sanbangsan Mountain.
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
Coast & islands
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Right in front of Sanbangsan, a ridge runs into the sea that locals thought looked like a dragon lowering its head into the water, hence the name Yongmeori, "dragon's head". The cliffs are layers of volcanic ash thrown out by eruptions und…
Old towns & squares
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Black basalt walls wind along the lanes, low thatched roofs crouch behind them, and in the middle of the village stands a zelkova with a trunk five metres round. Seongeup was the seat of Jeongui-hyeon, one of the three districts into which…
Museums
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At the Jeju Aerospace Museum in Andeok-myeon, Seogwipo, real aircraft fill a huge exhibition hall, some parked on the floor and some hanging in the air. With an aviation history hall showing 26 real aircraft, an astronomy and space hall an…
Waterfalls
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Between the hotels and resorts of the Jungmun tourist complex hides a deep ravine. Walk down the steps and you reach an emerald pool ringed by dark, column-shaped rock. Cheonjeyeon, "the pond of the emperor of heaven", is the source of a w…
Waterfalls
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Cheonjiyeon Waterfall sits at the end of a wooded gorge close to central Seogwipo, where a 22-metre column of water drops into a deep pool. The name means roughly "the pond where heaven and earth meet", and the sound of the falls fills the…