7 attractions in Ulsan, including Ganjeolgot Cape, Daewangam Park and Yeongnam Alps. Map, details and practical tips before you go.
Coast & islands
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On Ulsan's southern shore a headland points out into the East Sea. Ganjeolgot is known as one of the first places on the Korean mainland to see the sunrise, and every 1 January it draws huge crowds. The rest of the year it is a seaside par…
Coast & islands
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Walk out of the pine forest and the coast suddenly opens up: reddish granite boulders tumbling into the sea as if poured from a giant bucket. Daewangam Park sits on the eastern tip of Ulsan's Dong District, on the cape that juts furthest i…
Mountains & peaks
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On an autumn afternoon, silver eulalia grass bends in the wind on a high mountain pass while lines of hikers file through it. The Yeongnam Alps are not a single mountain: the name compares a cluster of high peaks spread across Ulju County…
Gardens & parks
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Stretching along the Taehwa River through the heart of Ulsan, Taehwagang National Garden became Korea's second national garden in 2019, after Suncheon Bay. Its emblem is Simni Bamboo Forest, a long belt of bamboo along the river, and after…
Historic sites & memorials
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The Bangudae Petroglyphs are prehistoric carvings of whales, hunters and animals on a cliff above the Daegokcheon stream near Ulsan. Some whales are rendered so precisely that you can tell the species apart, which is extremely rare in rock…
Fortresses
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Eonyangeupseong is a rare example in Korea of a walled town built as a neat square on flat ground rather than on a hillside. It protected the old county of Eonyang, a crossroads on the routes linking Gyeongju, Ulsan, Miryang and Yangsan, a…
Museums
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Jangsaengpo, once Ulsan's busiest whaling port, is home to Jangsaengpo Whale Museum, the only whale museum in Korea. Huge whale skeletons, whaling gear and models of the old whaling village tell the long story of whales and people here. Th…