- Sunrise park
- Department of industry in Yeongdeok-gun county office (054) 730-6311
- Yeongdeok city bus information (054) 732-7374
- Point : Drive about 40 minutes from Pohang toward Yeongdeok, and another 30 minutes from Ganggu along local road #918.
- The park is well organized with wild flowers, hiking paths, observation decks, resting places, and reeds. It is a wonderful place where you can relax. It is located on one of the most beautiful coastal roads in Korea. It is a beautiful park with “music” and “sculptures.”
- Samsa Marine Park
- Samsa Marine Park superintendent’s office (054) 733-0300
- Ganggu-myeon office (054) 730-6602
- Samsa Theme Land (054) 734-3403
- Happy Day World (054) 733-5309
- Point : Drive 10 minutes from Yeongdeok along national road # toward Pohang.
- Located in Samsa-ri across from Ganggu port, it has a total area of about 80,000 pyong. It has waterfalls, fountains, and boasts of a natural observation deck that will enable you to have a bird’s-eye view of the entire East Coast. Being the best place for watching the sunrise, each year many tourists visit the park to attend the ceremony of striking the Grand Gyeongbuk Bell and watch the first sunrise of the New Year. Its recreational facilities such as the Theme Land and Happy Day, and accommodations such as hotels, motels and bungalows will please tourists.
- The birth-home of General Shindolseok
- The birth-home of General Shindolseok
- Superintendent Deokgi Choi (054) 732-4767
- Chuksan-myeon office (054) 730-6606
- Pointer Drive 15 minutes from Yeongdeok along national road #7 toward Uljin.
- Shindolseok was a commoner-turned-militia general. His family was from Pyeongsan, his alias was Sungyeong, his pen name was Jangsan, and his real name was Taeho. He was also called Dolseok, Taehong, Taeeul, and Daeho. He was nicknamed the Tiger of Mt. Taebaek. He was born in Dogok-ri, Chuksan-myeon, Yeongdeok-gun in 1878. He was taught by Jungrip Lee, and when the entire nation rose in revolt against the assassination of Empress Myeongseong in 1895, he organized a militia in Yeonghae and disbanded it a year later.
As people rose again against the Treaty of 1905, he organized a militia called ‘Yeongreung Euibyeongjin’ in 1906, and launched guerrilla warfare all over Gyeongsang-do, Gangwon-do and Chungcheong-do in a protean manner, chilling the blood of the Imperial Japan.
In 1907 the commander-in-chief appointed him ‘gyonam changeui daejang,’ and as many militia generals died and the war was not going in favor of the militia in 1908, thereby withering militia activities, he disbanded the militia. He went into retirement in Nulgok-ri, Jipum-myeon with his brothers on his mother’s side, Sangryeol, Sangtae and Sangho Kim, promising himself a better future. His brothers were blinded by the bounty on his neck, and gave him poisoned wine which Shindolseok drank. He was killed with an ax.
- Gyeongbo Fossil Museum
- Gyeongbo Fossil Museum (054) 732-8655
- Namjeong-myeon office (054) 730-6603
- Pointer : Drive 15 minutes from Yeongdeok along national road #7 toward Uljin.
- If you drive 13.5km along national road #7 from Yeongdeok toward Uljin, you will come to Gyeongbo Rest Area. This is the 1st Class Fossil Museum, registration number 84, which was opened on June 26, 1996. More than 2,000 fossils collected from across the world are on display here. They are sorted by period, classification, and characteristics. It consists of the 150-pyong indoor exhibition room and the outdoor exhibition pavilion that overlooks the East Sea. Standard fossils representing respective periods, facies fossils indicative of the environment, and various other fossils will let you learn about the history of life and earth. This is the first and the largest fossil museum in Korea.
