Korea Travel Atlas lists 14 places in South Jeolla. Cities and counties covered: Suncheon, Yeosu, Damyang, Boseong, Wando, Mokpo, Jindo, Sinan, Gurye, Gokseong, Haenam.
By category: Heritage 3 · Culture 2 · Nature 9
KTO Official DataNatureScenic Nature SpotSuncheon
순천만습지
Suncheonman Bay Wetland Reserve is a world-class UNESCO coastal biosphere reserve covering 28 square kilometers of expansive tidal mudflats and the densest natural reed forest in South Korea. The b...
KTO Official Data여수 오동도 및 해상케이블카
Yeosu Odongdo Island and the Marine Cable Car form South Korea’s quintessential maritime spectacle, featuring an emerald islet carpeted with 3,000 crimson winter camellias and an exhilarating 1.5-k...
KTO Official Data담양 죽녹원
Damyang Juknokwon is South Korea’s premier 31-hectare bamboo sanctuary, featuring eight meditative forest trails beneath towering green bamboo canopies, rich phytoncide breezes, traditional scholar...
KTO Official Data담양 메타세쿼이아 가로수길
Damyang Metasequoia Tree-Lined Road is South Korea’s most celebrated forest boulevard, featuring a 2.1-kilometer pedestrian promenade shaded by 487 soaring, 50-year-old metasequoias, barefoot red-c...
KTO Official DataNatureScenic Nature SpotBoseong
보성 대한다원 녹차밭
Boseong Daehan Dawon is South Korea’s premier 500-hectare tea plantation, celebrated for 5.8 million terraced emerald green tea bushes cascading across misty mountain amphitheaters, soaring entranc...
KTO Official Data여수 향일암
Yeosu Hyangiram is South Korea’s premier ocean cliff hermitage, perched dramatically on the sheer vertical precipices of Mount Geumosan, famous for seven natural cavernous rock clefts, thousands of...
KTO Official DataHeritageTraditional VillageSuncheon
순천 낙안읍성 민속마을
Suncheon Naganeupseong is South Korea’s most complete surviving Joseon Dynasty walled fortress village, preserving an authentic 1.4-kilometer stone rampart enclosing 218 thatched-roof cottages wher...
KTO Official Data완도 청산도
Cheongsando Island is Asia’s first designated Cittaslow (Slow City), world-renowned for its emerald sea, golden canola and green barley terraces, ancient Gudeuljangnon stone-retained rice paddies, ...
KTO Official Data목포 해상케이블카
Mokpo Marine Cable Car is South Korea’s longest cable car installation at 3.23 kilometers, soaring from North Port Station across the craggy ridges of Yudalsan Mountain, over the sea strait to Goha...
KTO Official Data진도 신비의 바닷길
Jindo Miracle Sea Parting Road is the world-renowned Korean version of Moses’ Miracle, an extraordinary tidal phenomenon where the ocean parts between Hoedong-ri and Modo Island, revealing a 2.8-ki...
KTO Official Data신안 퍼플섬 (반월박지도)
Sinan Purple Island is a whimsical, world-renowned fairytale archipelago consisting of Banwoldo and Bakjido, interconnected by 1.4 kilometers of iconic purple wooden pedestrian bridges, where every...
KTO Official Data구례 화엄사
Jirisan Gurye Hwaeomsa is a monumental thousand-year-old Buddhist sanctuary on Mount Jirisan, revered for its peerless concentration of National Treasures—including the colossal two-story Gakhwangj...
KTO Official DataCultureLocal ExperienceGokseong
곡성 섬진강기차마을
Gokseong Seomjin River Train Village is South Korea’s premier nostalgic railway heritage park, featuring real operating steam locomotives whistling along the meandering Seomjin River, pedal-powered...
KTO Official DataNatureScenic Nature SpotHaenam
해남 땅끝마을
Haenam Ttangkkeut is the symbolic southernmost geographic point of the Korean Peninsula (34°17′38″ N), where the Yellow Sea meets the South Sea, featuring the hilltop Ttangkkeut Observation Tower r...