Gwangmyeong
Gwangmyeong is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.

Gwangmyeong is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. It borders Seoul to the east, north and northeast, Anyang to the southeast, Siheung to the southwest, and Bucheon to the northwest. It is home to one of the world's largest IKEA stores at 59,000 square meters, along with a large Costco store and a Lotte Premium Outlet.
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Worth seeing in and around Gwangmyeong
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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- 05Gocheok Sky Dome
Domed baseball stadium located in Gocheok-dong, Seoul, South Korea.
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Ki Hyeong-do Literature Museum
A museum dedicated to the poet Ki Hyeong-do.
- 02Ante Ecological Park
- 03Chunghyeon Museum
Chunghyun Museum preserves the ruins and relics of Lee Won-ik and his immediate descendants.
- 04Lee Won-ik House and Gwangamdang
This is the closing price of Lee Won-ik, a duck who served as a royal family member during the Joseon Dynasty (1567-1608) and King Injo (1623-1649) and was known as Cheongbaek-ri.
- 05Gureim-san
Hayan 1-dong (on the border between Soha-dong and Noonsa-dong),.
- 06Dodeok Mountain
From Wikivoyage: Gwangmyeong, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
Gwangmyeong City Volunteer Festival. This event is held every year to comfort volunteers and promote harmony among volunteers, supporters and beneficiaries. Gureum-san Art Festival. Gureum-san Mountain appears in Gwangmyeong weather and regularity in the Citizen's Charter and the Song of the Citizens.
- 01Gwangmyeong Wine Festival
- 02Gwangmyeong Traditional Market
- 03Gwangmyeong Speedom
It is a large-scale racetrack with a total floor area of 74,000444㎡ on the 1st basement and 5th floors, and can accommodate up to 30,000 people.
- 04Lotte Cinema Gwangmyeong
- 05Lotte Cinema Gwangmyeong Outlet
There is a place where you can watch movies and do shopping downstairs.
- 06Parks
A Hyeonchung Neighborhood Park is 34,586 m².
From Wikivoyage: Gwangmyeong, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
- 01Gwangmyeong Hanjeongsik Gyeongbok Palace
The restaurant offers the best ingredients and limited food.
- 02Soha Gotaek
The menu of the cafe composed of hanok is also unique.
- 03Papadcujin
Bamilan-ro 1 (Bamil Village Jisun Bus 5630/two minutes' walk),.
- 04Dwae Ji Jip
The company also sells its products with a wide range of tools.
- 05Tteokppokttang
Also, you will feel really satisfied when you eat tteokbokki and sundae chicken on the menu.
From Wikivoyage: Gwangmyeong, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Gwangmyeong
- Airports
- Seoul Gimpo (GMP), 11 km · Incheon (ICN), 37 km · Cheongju/Cheongju Air Base (K-59/G-513) (CJJ), 102 km
- Stations
- Daebang Station, 6.8 km · Sindorim Station, 4.3 km · Noryangjin Station, 7.9 km · Gaebong Station, 2.2 km · Singil Station, 6.4 km
- Cheongju → Gwangmyeong109 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · ₩15,550–20,700
- Gonghang-ro → Gwangmyeong318 km · quickest by air, 3h 57m · ₩108,030–167,200
- Daegu → Gwangmyeong236 km · quickest by road, 4h 30m · ₩31,500–42,050
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Gwangmyeong
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Gwangmyeong. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Gwangmyeong – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Gwangmyeong
Gwangmyeong is 8 km from Bucheon-si, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Bucheoncity in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea7.7 km
- Guro Districtdistrict (gu) of Seoul, South Korea3.4 km
- School of Performing Arts Seoulhigh school in Guro District, Seoul, South Korea4 km