1 / 9Jeongbang Falls & SeogwipoPhoto: Lcarrion88 / CC BY-SA 4.0
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A 23-metre waterfall that drops onto the rocks of the shore, said to be the only one in Korea to fall straight into the sea. Pair it with Seogwipo’s covered Olle Market ten minutes away.
Jeongbang falls 23 metres straight onto the shore rocks. Legend has it that an envoy of the first Chinese emperor, sent to find the elixir of life on Jeju, carved his name on the cliff here on the way home.
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Counted from the moment you step off the gangway. The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside.
15 minutes each way is the honest figure for gangjeong · bus 680 or taxi ~15 min, not the optimistic one. If your ship is late, cut the 2 hr 30 min in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.
Each one is a finished day we have walked and timed, with this stop in it. Read the route rather than assembling it yourself.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
The Gangjeong women divers run a restaurant beside the southern terminal: noodle soup with the sea urchin they bring up themselves.
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4 hr 30 min for bothHexagonal columns of basalt thirty to forty metres high, where lava met the sea and cracked as it cooled.
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4 hr 40 min for bothA 22-metre fall at the end of a short gorge walk in Seogwipo, lit and open until 22:00.
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