Jeju Island
Jeju Island is South Korea's largest island, covering an area of 1,833.2 km2 (707.8 sq mi), which is 1.83% of the total area of the country.
Jeju Island is South Korea's largest island, covering an area of 1,833.2 km2 (707.8 sq mi), which is 1.83% of the total area of the country. Alongside outlying islands, it is part of Jeju Province and makes up the majority of the province.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Lava tubes and other volcanic sights. Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tubes is a UNESCO World Heritage site in the "nature" category. Mount Halla (Hallasan) dominating the island is a dormant volcano and there are underground caves with lava tubes to explore on Geomeunoreum. Seongsan Ilchulbong is a tuff cone crater in Seogwipo. All three are very popular attractions and accessible. Jeju Old Government Offices.
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Things to do
There are many hiking trails in the Hallasan National Park. Iho Tewoo Beach in Jeju City is close to Jeju Airport, and it is enough distance to ride a bicycle. There are white and red pony lighthouses, the slope of the beach is gentle, and there is a pine forest nearby, so it is a good place to enjoy the scenery and take a walk.}} Songaksan Mountain in Seogwipo is a good path to walk while looking at the scenery as…
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Where to eat
The people of Jeju have evolved various lifestyles, depending on whether they live in fishing villages, farm villages, or mountain villages so specialties vary within the region. Life in the farm villages was centered on farming, as it did around fishing or diving fishery in fishing villages, and did around dry-field farming or mushroom/mountain-green gathering in the mountain areas.
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Getting to Jeju Island
- Airports
- Jeju (CJU), 15 km · Muan (MWX), 180 km · Gimhae (PUS), 298 km
- Muan (Piseo-ri) → Jeju Island179 km · quickest by road, 6h 22m · ₩26,600–35,450
- Busan → Jeju Island298 km · quickest by air, 4h 36m · ₩124,920–193,770
- Seoul → Jeju Island467 km · quickest by air, 5h 3m · ₩147,320–228,550
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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 Jeju Island
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 Jeju Island. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFerry access from the mainland is also available, although the increasingly low price of flying means that fewer people are using this.
- Get inServices are comparatively infrequent and slow but are reasonable value after factoring in accommodation savings made on overnight ferries.
- Get inThere are daily services from a number of ports: Nokdong New Port Coastal Ferry Terminal: this terminal in Goheung has ferries to Jeju Island as well as Jeollanam-do islands including Heuksando, Hongdo and Gageodo.
- Get inFerries leave every day at 9:00 for a journey time to Jeju of 3.5 hours.
- Get inFerries do not run on the first and third Sundays of each month.
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If you know how people move in Jeju Island – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Jeju Island
Jeju Island is 14 km from Jeju City, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.