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Thematic tourism

  • Pungam Lake

    Pungam Lake

    The different emotion may be felt as the place that the road where the downtown path and field path are in harmony leading to the observation deck of Seochang Sunset passing the Reservoir Jeonpyeong Lake from Pungam Lake Park out of 4 courses of Mountain field path.

    The Pungam Lake Park is the starting point of this road to the park downtown that it is very much loved by citizens of Gwangju along with the Reservoir Uncheon.

    It is popular as adate course of lovers in the daytime, as the exercise course of neighboring residents in the night time as the Pungam Lake Park located in the middle lined with the large scale apartment complex is bigger than Reservoir Uncheonin scale, the green belt is well created.

    Ducks swimming on the trees planted along the Promenade and water leisurely made our heart feel at ease if we walk on the wooden bridge crossing the lake.

    Again, the roof of Gwangju World Cup Stadium that the historical of semi-final has been cultivated in 2002 World Cup is seen if we walk here.

    Especially, eyes and nose of passing people passing are captured as flower buds of various roses of each country are popped out in the early summer as the rose garden is created here.

    Reservoir Jeonpyeong Lake is seen at the other side if we pass Gwangju Western Agricultural and Marine Products Wholesale Market by walking to the direction of Maewol-dong from the Pungam Lake Park.

  • SeochangPort of Yeongsan Rive

    SeochangPort of Yeongsan River

    The road from the Reservoir Jeonpyeong Lake to the Promenade of Mt. Backma, the Seochang Native Culture Village and the old Seochang Port of Yeongsan River is the visiting road of Seochang Port of Yeongsan River.

    It is the course good to walk with easiness and the composure as total 3.6km and enjoy contemplating.

    You may go after taking a rest here if you are tired with the walking as there are many beautiful personal café that the personality is overflowing in the around Reservoir Jeonpyeong Lake.

    The mood that the fatigue is disappeared completely with a cup of tea only overlooking the Reservoir Jeonpyeong Lake the easy and composed atmosphere is exuded.

    Going after taking a rest for a while by confronting the fresh breeze in the Suwol Hall located in the entrance of wooden bridge in lake walking is a good method.

    After Teacher Hoijae Kwang Ok, Park built the GaesanBank being the current Reservoir Jeonpyeong Lake in 1568, the Suwol Hall built on it is playing the role soundly as the resting place of citizens that Seo-gu office restored and remodeled in the past 2013.

  • Seochang field

    Seochang field

    It is the time to walk now if you enjoyed the rest sufficiently around the Reservoir Jeonpyeong Lake.

    The Field paththat the rice is rustled in both side street if we entered by walking straight along the lake.

    It is the road presenting the unexpected landscape as the rice is dyed light green in the spring, dyed green color in the midsummer and dyed golden color in the autumn, is changed to the image like the snowy fields in the winter when the rice is cut off.

    There is the low uphill road to the left side if we walk along the wide open field path, the entrance of Dongha village is reached if we face this place.

    The Dongha village is the place that ‘the Seochang Mandeuri Harvesting Rituals’ has been performed as the neighboring village of Seochang Field.

    It is the reason that wall paintings reproducing the Seochang Mandeuri Harvesting Rituals can be seen if we walk the village road.

    The Mandeuri is the final weeding work of rice paddy as the work pulling out the weed until the rice is grown up to some extent after the rice transplantation.

    It would be good to look on the harvesting rituals being the rare landscape in the forest fromyour apartment if you visited here sometime this year as the Seochang Mandeuri Harvesting Rituals is held in the field of Seha-dong, in July every year.

    The Man-gwi jeong comes into the sight if we ascend straight by taking the photograph with the wall painting in the background.

    When Chang Woo Jang erected the village school in the underwater in 1671, it was seen as the beginning as the Man-gwijeong is the underwater Pavilion erected in the middle of pond with 1,400 pyong.

    Descendants of Chang Woo JANG repaired this place in 1945 by reconstructing in 1934.

    The Seuphang Tower, theMookam Village School across the bridge are standing in a line beside Man-gwijeong in this pond.

    The Man-gwijeong is the place where four seasons are beautiful.

    The iris and the daffodil are dyed yellow in the spring, the Lycoris squamigera Maxim and the Lotus bloom in the summer and the cool feeling is given as the willow is dyed light green.

    The classical grace and dignity is added in the autumn with the garden zinnia and the lotus, the different landscape is made as the white snow is coming down on the dark green pine tree in the winter.

    This is the place making us think once again if there is the attraction with the dark season like this.

    We would arrive at the Seochang Native Culture Village if we walk the degree of 900m along the big road to the left side after moving again the footstep unwilling to move from the Man-gwijeong.

  • Seochang Local Culture Village

    Seochang Local Culture Village

    There is the exhibition hall of folk goods data and the experience center of Native Culture, etc. as the created place so that the traditional culture and the farm life may be experienced in the village with which the structure of Korean style house is equipped originally.

    It is a good place to visit with children as the culture school of weekend niche, the experience school of traditional play culture, the village school of etiquette and the pottery experience, etc. are progressed.

    It seems to be good to feel the classical grace and dignity of Korean style house and spend the different night by sleeping one night if you found this place as the tracking course as there is the Korean style house stay program of 1 night and 2 days.

    The Seochang Field is unfolded to the right side if we walk in the direction of the way back coming out from the Seochang Native Culture Village.

    It is the degree capable of knowing the reason why Gwangju, Jeonnam Area win the name as the grain belt from the ancient times if we look at the plains stretched out endlessly to beyond the horizon.

    The refreshingness is passed down as the heart is penetrated‘pop’ in the unhampered view rarely to be seen in the downtown.

    Mt. Wolchul, Youngam is seen at a glance in addition to Gwangju downtown on a clear day.

    Thus, the Sunset of Seochang Field is one of 8 scenic Views of Seo-gu that you must look if you visited this place.

  • observation deck of Seochang Sunset

    Observation deck of Seochang Sunset

    It will make us feel that we are in a dream that the whole world is dyed red as the red light is laid at the wide plains murmuring as the sun sets .

    The sunset at Seochang Field is better as we are able to look the far away from here to the red colored horizon if we look on the observation deck of Seochang Sunset.

    This observation deckmay be found if we turn to the side of Younsan Riverside by walking about 20 minutes along the Seochang Field.

    Let’s have the time lowering myself by looking silently as much as I contain the image of wide plains by lowering the complicated thought for a while by appreciating the Sunset on the observation deck.