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Daejeon

Daejeon
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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Daejeon

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.

  1. 01
    KAIST

    South Korean public research university

    3.2 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Daejeon World Cup Stadium

    Football stadium in Daejeon, South Korea

    5.7 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Chungnam National University

    University in Daejon, South Korea

    4.1 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Daejeon Museum of Art

    Museum in Daejeon, South Korea

    2 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Daejeon Hanbat Baseball Stadium

    Baseball park in Daejeon, South Korea

    5.4 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    National Science Museum, South Korea

    National museum in Daejeon, South Korea

    3.1 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Information and Communications University

    Research university in Daejeon, South Korea

    4.9 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Institute for Basic Science

    Science institute in South Korea

    3.1 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Daejeon National Cemetery

    National Cemetery located in South Korea

    8.3 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Hanbat National University

    University in Daejeon, South Korea

    7.6 km · Wikipedia

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.

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Getting to Daejeon

Airports
Cheongju/Cheongju Air Base (K-59/G-513) (CJJ), 42 km · Daegu (TAE), 125 km · Seoul Gimpo (GMP), 144 km
Stations
Daejeon Station, 4.8 km · Seodaejeon Station, 3.4 km · Panam Station, 7.5 km · Banseok station, 7.9 km · Jijok Station, 7 km
  • Cheongju → Daejeon
    33 km · quickest by road, 57 min · ₩4,360–5,800
  • Seoul → Daejeon
    140 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · ₩18,650–24,900
  • Daegu → Daejeon
    121 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · ₩16,650–22,200
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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.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Daejeon

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 Daejeon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextAnother option to get to Jeju would be to take KTX to Busan and catch a ferry but this would be both less economical and efficient.

From Wikivoyage: Daejeon, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Muuido and the Incheon islandsKR

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    145 km
  2. 02
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    1,126 km
  3. 03
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    1,331 km
  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,373 km
  5. 05
    Kinmen (Quemoy)TW

    10 ways of moving, 12 sources

    1,578 km

If you know how people move in Daejeon – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Daejeon

Daejeon is 28 km from Sejong, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.