7 attractions in Wando County, including Dadohaehaesang National Park, Bogildo Island and Yun Seondo Garden on Bogildo.
National parks
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Dadohaehaesang ("sea of many islands") is South Korea's largest national park, a scatter of islands and open water off the south-western tip of the peninsula in South Jeolla Province. Hundreds of islands, from Hongdo in Sinan to Geumodo an…
Coast & islands
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Off the south-west of Wando, Bogildo is best known as the island where the Joseon poet Yun Seon-do stopped on his way to Jeju and stayed to build a garden retreat. Yet the island as a whole has much more to offer: the Yesong-ri pebble beac…
Gardens & parks
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On Bogildo, an island in the sea south of Wando, survives the garden that the Joseon poet Yun Seondo (pen name Gosan) shaped with his own hands over more than a decade. He dammed a stream to make ponds and set pavilions on the natural rock…
Coast & islands
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Soando, an island in the sea south of Wando, greets arriving boats with a stone reading "Land of resistance, island of liberation". During Japanese rule it produced an unusually large number of independence activists for its size, and it i…
Coast & islands
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Cross two bridges from the Haenam Peninsula at the southwestern tip of the Korean mainland and you arrive on Wando, the main island of Wando County. At 90.1 km² it is the eighth-largest island in South Korea, and in the Silla period it was…
Coast & islands
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Fifty minutes by boat from Wando harbour, Cheongsando, the island that stays green all year, was named Asia's first Slow City. Stone-walled lanes, terraced gudeuljang rice paddies and hillsides covered in yellow rapeseed flowers in spring…
Historic sites & memorials
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The small island of Jangdo, just off Wando, was the base of Cheonghaejin, the maritime garrison founded by Jang Bogo, who dominated East Asian waters in the 9th century. A wooden bridge from Jangjwa-ri village takes you straight onto the i…