Gogunsan Sunyu-do Mangjubong: Driving to the West Sea Archipelago
Why Most Foreign Visitors Never Make It to Gogunsan 🚐 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 → I have driven clients to a lot of remote trailheads across Korea, but the Gogunsan archipelago off the coast of Gunsan still stops people in their tracks — sometimes literally, in the middle of a tidal flat. The island chain sits roughly 50 km west of Gunsan city in North Jeolla Province, and it comprises sixty-three islands, of which about ten are inhabited. Most visitors in Korea have heard of Jeju or maybe Tongyeong. Almost nobody outside the country has heard of Gogunsan, and that gap between obscurity and actual beauty is exactly why I keep routing clients out here. Getting here independently as a foreigner is genuinely difficult. Gunsan itself is not on the KTX mainline — you change at Iksan, or you take a slower Saemaeul service — and the ferry schedule from Gunsan'...