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Dobong-dong

Dobong-dong (Korean: 도봉동) is a dong (neighborhood) of Dobong District, Seoul, South Korea.

The place

Dobong-dong (Korean: 도봉동) is a dong (neighborhood) of Dobong District, Seoul, South Korea. The dong is one of the four located in the Dobong District. According to the Köppen–Geiger climate classification system, the region is Dwa, or a humid continental climate. The average temperature is 11.1 °C and approximately 147.5 cm of precipitation falls annually. The postal code for Dobong-dong is 132-010. The region is also referred to as Tobong-dong.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dobong-dong

4 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
    Dobongsan

    Dobongsan is a mountain in Bukhansan National Park, South Korea. It extends across Seoul, the national capital, and the cities of Yangju and Uijeongbu, in the province of Gyeonggi Province.

    3.3 km · mountain in Bukhansan National Park, South Korea · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Suraksan

    Suraksan is a mountain in South Korea. It extends from the Nowon District of Seoul to the cities of Namyangju and Uijeongbu in Gyeonggi Province.

    3.9 km · mountain in South Korea · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Duksung Women's University

    Duksung Women's University is a private university in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 1920. Its campus is located in Dobong District, Seoul Metropolitan Government, and a lifelong graduate school and a corporation are located in Jongno District.

    3.9 km · Private university in Seoul, South Korea · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Onggi Folk Museum

    The Onggi Folk Museum, located in Seoul, South Korea is a private museum specializing in onggi, Korean earthenware which is used for storage and utilitarian purposes. It was established as the Goryeo Folk Museum in 1991 and later was changed to the current name.

    3.7 km · Private museum in Seoul, South Korea · 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.

Go there

Getting to Dobong-dong

Airports
Seoul Gimpo (GMP), 26 km · Incheon (ICN), 57 km · Cheongju/Cheongju Air Base (K-59/G-513) (CJJ), 115 km
Stations
Buramsan Station, 3.4 km · Chang-dong Station, 3 km · Dobongsan Station, 1.1 km · Nokcheon Station, 3.9 km · Nowon Station, 3.2 km
  • Seoul → Dobong-dong
    14 km · quickest by road, 41 min · ₩2,240–2,980
  • Cheongju → Dobong-dong
    123 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · ₩16,100–21,450
  • Gonghang-ro → Dobong-dong
    328 km · quickest by air, 4h 37m · ₩128,580–198,680
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dobong-dong

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere are ferry services to various points in China from the neighboring port city of Incheon.
  • Get inNo services run from Japan to Seoul; many Koreans take the coach, KTX or SRT trains to Busan, where several ferry and hydrofoil options are available.
  • Go nextMany tour companies offer DMZ tours which is a day trip from Seoul, the highlight of which is a village lying in the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea.

From Wikivoyage: Seoul, 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

    64 km
  2. 02
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    1,274 km
  3. 03
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    1,441 km
  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,511 km
  5. 05
    SakhalinRU

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    1,653 km

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

Around it

Next door to Dobong-dong

Dobong-dong is 7 km from Uijeongbu-si, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.