things to do in nam-gu, gwangju, south korea

Yangnim-dong Penguin Village Craft Street

Yangnim-dong Penguin Village Craft Street

Yangnim-dong Penguin Village Craft Street is a narrow alleyway located behind the Yangrim-dong Community Center. The village, named because of the ...

Penguin Village

Penguin Village

BTS mural and penguin bread Since the 1970s and 1980s, 4 to 5 elderly people who lived in old villages started to decorate with scrap metal works, ...

House Of Choi Seung-hyo

House Of Choi Seung-hyo

The House of Choi Seung-hyo is a traditional residential building located on the southeastern slopes of Yangnimsan Mountain. The rectangular buildi...

Gwangju Sajik Park

Gwangju Sajik Park

Sajik Park is located at the previous site of Sajikdan Altar, a ritual site to pray for peace and prosperity during the Three Kingdoms Era. In the ...

Lee Jang-woo S House

Lee Jang-woo S House

Designated the first Gwangju Folk Material on March 20, 1989, Lee Jang-woo's House is an upper-class, tile-roofed house with a gate, storeroom, ser...

Yangnim-dong Missionary Cemetery

Yangnim-dong Missionary Cemetery

The Yangnim-dong Missionary Cemetery is the final resting place of 23 missionaries who brought Christianity to Gwangju and led the movement to free...

Missionary Wilson S House

Missionary Wilson S House

Missionary Wilson’s House is a two-story brick building that sits upon the eastern foothills of Yangnimsan Mountain. Known as the oldest surviving ...

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Yangnim History Culture Village

Yangnim History & Culture Village is located in the area where Western items and ideas first entered Gwangju over 100 years ago. As such, the neigh...

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Han Hee-won Art Museum

Han Hee-won Art Museum is a small hanok art museum in the back alley of Yangnim-dong. Painter Han Hee-won grew up in Yangnim-dong, where he was inf...

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Yeongsangang River Culture Pavilion

With the slogan “Yeongsangang River, where Nature and Life Coexist,” Yeongsangang River Culture Pavilion consists of an open space that blends well...