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용인시
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…
Lakes
대구
In the middle of Suseong-gu in Daegu, Suseong Lake is a reservoir about 2 km around that serves as the city's favourite strolling and dating spot. It began as a colonial-era reservoir for irrigating rice paddies, but today swan-shaped peda…
Lakes
파주시
In Gisan-ri, Gwangtan-myeon, Paju, a 220 m suspension footbridge hangs over a reservoir ringed by wooded hills. Since the bridge opened in 2018, Majang Lake (Majanghosu) has become an easy lakeside outing from northern Seoul. Cross the bri…
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의왕시
Ringed by the ridges of Cheonggyesan, Baegunsan and Moraksan, Baegunhosu Lake in Uiwang was created as an irrigation reservoir in 1953. Its job of watering the rice fields of Pyeongchon ended when the Pyeongchon new town was built in the 1…
Lakes
속초시
Right in the middle of Sokcho, Cheongchoho Lake is a lagoon about 5 km around. It formed where river water meets the sea and a sandbar cut it off from the East Sea, and from the lakeside path you can see the ridges of Seoraksan rising beyo…
Lakes
춘천시
Uiamho Lake is the reason Chuncheon calls itself the "City of Lakes". When the hydroelectric Uiam Dam was built on the middle Bukhangang River in 1967, the waters of the Bukhangang and Soyanggang rivers gathered to form this lake. Water an…
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충주시
At the western end of Chungjuho Lake, the Jongdaengi Trail loops right around Simhangsan, a 385 m hill. Rather than climbing to a summit, it follows the slopes above the water, so the gradients are gentle and the blue lake keeps appearing…
Lakes
진주시
Follow the Namgang River west from central Jinju and you reach Jinyangho, the large lake created by the Namgang Dam. The hillside overlooking the water is Jinyangho Lake Park, where a three-storey observatory, a flight of 365 steps and an…
Lakes
가평군
Cheongpyeong Lake was created when the Cheongpyeong Dam blocked the Bukhangang River, about 50 km from Seoul. Water-sports centres, guesthouses and cafés line its mountain-ringed shores, making it one of the easiest lakeside getaways from…
Lakes
충주시
Chungju Lake is a vast reservoir created in 1985 when the Chungju Dam blocked the Namhangang River. It winds between the mountains from Chungju through Jecheon almost as far as Dodamsambong in Danyang, covering about 67.5 km² and holding a…