Guryongpo Japanese Houses Street
구룡포 일본인 가옥거리
A street of wooden houses left from the Japanese occupation. A stone stairway at its entrance climbs to a park on the hill.
Language
Place information
- Korean name
- 구룡포 일본인 가옥거리
- Address
- 153-1 Guryongpo-gil, Guryongpo-eup, Nam-gu, Pohang-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do
Filmed here
When the Camellia Blooms(동백꽃 필 무렵)K-drama
Ongsan in the drama. Dongbaek's bar Camellia and the Ongsan crab-stew alley are both on this street.
KTO — 'Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha' and 'When the Camellia Blooms' locations in Pohang ·
The place today
Altostratus (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Nearby
Tomb of King Munmu
A rock outcrop in the sea, held to be the grave of the king who completed Silla's unification of the Three Kingdoms. It lies offshore from Bonggil-ri, cannot be landed on, and the visit consists of looking at a rock some two hundred metres out from Bonggil Beach. It faces due east, so people gather here at sunrise. It is a little over thirty kilometres east of central Gyeongju, too far to fold into a day among the city-centre tombs.
Seokguram Grotto
A separate journey from Bulguksa with its own travel time, not an annexe of it. Admission has been free since 4 May 2023, and the published times are last-admission times rather than closing times.
Wolpo Beach
A beach with a broad sand flat and shallow water. Its name means the bay where the moon is reflected.
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- Three filming locations in Pohang — and one invented village name became a market's real one
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