Namdae Stream, Muju (South Korea)

Namdae Stream, Muju (South Korea) - There are a lot of beaches in South Korea. The most popular beach in this country is Haeundae Beach. It is named by Choi Chi Won from the Silla Dinasty around 57 BC – 935 AD. The history started when he walked to Dongbaekdo Island and then being attracted by the view of the beach. That is why he left a carved stone “Hae Un Dae” in the stonewall of the island. Haeundae has a length for around 1, 5 km, width 30 – 50, and the area reached 58.400 m2. You can feel the white sand in this beach, but it is not as soft as you think because the sand itself is from Chuncheon Streamin and the Shellfish that has been eroded by wind days by days.

Muju – gun is actually belongs to two countries before registered in one administrative district. It was before the 4th BC, it is divided by Sobaek Mountains. The east side belongs to Byeonjin, while the west side belongs to Mahan. During three Korean kingdoms age, Mupung as the present name in Byeonjin belongs to Silla and called as Musanhyeon, and the area of Jugye which the current name is Muju – eup in Maham belongs to Baekje and called as Jeokcheonhyeo. Later, Musan renamed as Mupung while Jeokcheon as Dancheon after Silla age being united around 668 – 917. After founding Goryeo around 918 -1392, Mupung never changed the name while Dancheon renamed to be Jugye. And as Joseon rearranged for administrative distric in 1414 as the 14th of Taejong, Mupung and Jugye later categorized as one district.

Muju named from the combination of the first letters of those two areas, Mupung and Jugye after being categorized in an administrative district. Muju located near four provinces that are Chungnam, Chungbuk, Gyeongbuk and also Gyeongnam. Based on its historical and geographical, the area was being the transition place among east and southwest part as the situs for cultural transition. About the climate, it has a mountain climate in which the temperature drastically different from day and night. The average of yearly temperature could reach 10, 8 oC while the highst temperature of this year could reach 35 oC and the lowest is -17 oC. Around Muju, you can find out Namdae Stream as the branches of Geum River that will flow through Muju – eup.

Around the stream, you can enjoy the county cape in spring within a great view of Azalea Kingdom in Deokyu Mountain. For summer traveling, you can visit the popular site where you can get a fresh and clean water that is in Gucheon – dong. If you like rafting, it is available in Geum River. In Muju – eup, you could also trip to sand beach or Naedori as the island where you will be blessed by fantastic stones. In muju, you can find out snow resort in winter where you can get a lot of facilities such as skies, hotel, waterpool, park, and sauna. The most interesting thing that it even provides you the romantic scene as you can get in Namdae Stream, Muju (South Korea). The transportation in Muju also quite good to support your travelling time, so that you can go around to find out more beautiful scenes around Muju.

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