8 attractions in Yongin, including Gyeonggi Provincial Museum, Giheung Lake Park and Everland. Map, details and practical tips before you go.
Museums
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Gyeonggi Provincial Museum, in Sanggal-dong, Giheung-gu, Yongin, tells the story of Gyeonggi Province from prehistory to the modern era under one roof. Its strength is donated material from the province's old clans, such as portraits of Jo…
Lakes
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Right beside the Gyeongbu Expressway in Giheung-gu, Yongin, lies a reservoir covering 2.58 km². Built in the 1960s to supply farm water, Giheung Reservoir has become Giheung Lake Park, with a 10 km loop trail busy with walkers, cyclists an…
Theme parks
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Everland in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, is South Korea's largest theme park. It is much more than rides: a zoo with pandas and big cats, gardens with seasonal flower festivals and the Caribbean Bay water park all belong to the same resort.…
Churches & monasteries
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On the slopes of Yeonhwasan in Haegok-dong, Yongin, Waujeongsa greets you with a golden Buddha head 8 m tall at its entrance. More than 3,000 Buddha statues brought from India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand and other countries are scattered…
Historic sites & memorials
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Between the high-rise apartment blocks near Sanghyeon Station on the Sinbundang Line stands a Confucian academy founded in 1605. Simgokseowon honours Jo Gwang-jo (1482–1519), the reform-minded scholar who led a drive to remake government u…
Historic sites & memorials
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This is the house where Chang Ucchin (1917–1990), one of Korea's first generation of Western-style painters, spent his final years. Squeezed between apartment blocks in Mabuk-dong, Yongin, it keeps a late-Joseon Gyeonggi farmhouse alongsid…
Museums
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Before electricity, how did Koreans light their homes at night? The Korean Deungjan Museum in Mohyeon-eup, Yongin, answers that question with traditional oil lamps (deungjan), candlesticks and lamp stands, and it is the only museum in Kore…
Museums
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The Korean Folk Village in Giheung-gu, Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, is an open-air folk museum and traditional culture theme park. Opened on 3 October 1974, it was Korea's first open-air folk museum and recreates a late Joseon village on abo…