Sejong
Sejong or Sejong City, officially Sejong Special Self-Governing City (세종특별자치시), is a special self-governing city and the de facto administrative capital of South Korea.
Sejong or Sejong City, officially Sejong Special Self-Governing City (세종특별자치시), is a special self-governing city and the de facto administrative capital of South Korea.
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Worth seeing in and around Sejong
One place 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.
- 01Government Complex Sejong
The Government Complex Sejong is a government building built to create a multi-functional administrative city by relocating central administrative agencies to the non-metropolitan area for the purpose of decentralization, balanced development, and overcrowding in the metropolitan area.
2.5 km · government building in Sejong, 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.
What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Milmaru Observatory
A 9-story observatory with a 360 degrees overview of the Sejong City.
- 02Dokrakjeong Pavilion
- 03Space Geodetic Observation Center
- 04Sejong National Arboretum
- 05Beartree Park
Beartree Park is a zoo and arboretum where you can see animals such as Asiatic black bears and brown bears, and flowers and trees.
- 06Presidential Archives
From Wikivoyage: Sejong, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
- 01Sejong Lake Park
It is the largest artificial lake park in Korea with an average depth of 3 meters.
- 02Dweeungbark Village
- 03Geumgang Pedestrian Bridge
It is the longest walking-only bridge in Korea, and the circumference was set at 1446 m in commemoration of 1446 when King Sejong the Great spread the Hangul.
- 04Jocheon Cherry Blossom Path
- 05National library of Korea
Since its opening in 2013, National library of Korea, Sejong has hosted a variety of cultural events, exhibitions, and lectures.
- 06Sejong Central Park
From Wikivoyage: Sejong, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
- 01Jangwon Gap Kalguksu
- 02Dangmiso
It is a popular Korean restaurant with Korean beef hot pot using shiitake mushrooms and beef ribs.
- 03Sanjanggarden
- 04Bapsang Charyeojuneun Jip
- 05Fastars
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Getting to Sejong
- Airports
- Cheongju/Cheongju Air Base (K-59/G-513) (CJJ), 32 km · Seoul Gimpo (GMP), 127 km · Incheon (ICN), 132 km
- Seoul → Sejong112 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · ₩14,200–18,950
- Daegu → Sejong141 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · ₩19,650–26,250
- Muan (Piseo-ri) → Sejong196 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · ₩25,350–33,850
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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 Sejong
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 Sejong. 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 Sejong – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Sejong
Sejong is 18 km from Daejeon, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.