Seohaerang Trail: Walking Korea's West Sea Tideflats
The West Coast Trail Nobody Talks About π Want to walk this trail with a private driver? Off Map Korea drives small groups (2-6) to Korea's hidden paths. From ₩280,000/day · See packages → Every foreign hiker who comes through our office has heard of Jeju Olle. A fair number know the Haeparang trail on the east coast. Almost none have heard of the Seohaerang — the 173-kilometre coastal walk that threads through the tidal flats, salt fields, fishing villages, and pine-covered headlands of Korea's West Sea shore. That asymmetry has nothing to do with quality and everything to do with access. The Seohaerang runs roughly between Taean in South Chungcheong Province and Buan in North Jeolla Province, skirting the edge of one of the largest tidal-flat ecosystems on the planet. It is slow walking, low walking, occasionally muddy walking — and it is unlike anything else in Korea. What Makes the West Sea Coast Different Korea's east coast is dramatic: cliffs, pines, blue ...