Oedolgae Sea Stack
외돌개
A rock pillar about twenty metres high standing alone off the Seogwipo shore, left behind when the softer rock around it wore away; pines grow on top of it. Jeju Olle Trail Course 7 begins here and continues along the coast, so it works naturally as the first or last stop of a walking day rather than as somewhere to drive to and leave. Two stories attach to it: one in which General Choe Yeong of late Goryeo dressed the rock as a commander to frighten off an enemy, and one about an old woman who turned to stone waiting for her husband to come back from the sea.
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Place information
- Korean name
- 외돌개
- Address
- 791 Seohong-dong, Seogwipo-si, Jeju
- Opening hours
- open at all hours
- Closed
- Open year-round
- Height
- 20 m · Its height above the sea, given by the publisher as about 20 m.
Visiting rules
- PetsAllowed with conditions
- Dogs of any size are admitted. The Animal Protection Act requires the lead or harness to be kept within two metres, and waste bags are compulsory.
- Visit Jeju — Oedolgae (address 791 Seohong-dong; a rock pillar standing about 20 m above the sea; what is left of a lava field eroded by the waves; the sea cliffs and sea caves around it; the point where Jeju Olle Trail Course 7 passes; the name Janggunbawi from the General Choe Yeong story, and the waiting-woman story. It is listed as Scenic Site No. 79, its visitor note reads open at all times, every day of the year, dogs of any size admitted, leads or harnesses kept within two metres under the Animal Protection Act, and waste bags required; accessibility is marked 'very difficult'.) ·
- AccessibilityAllowed with conditions
- Visit Jeju marks this site 'very difficult' to reach.
- Visit Jeju — Oedolgae (address 791 Seohong-dong; a rock pillar standing about 20 m above the sea; what is left of a lava field eroded by the waves; the sea cliffs and sea caves around it; the point where Jeju Olle Trail Course 7 passes; the name Janggunbawi from the General Choe Yeong story, and the waiting-woman story. It is listed as Scenic Site No. 79, its visitor note reads open at all times, every day of the year, dogs of any size admitted, leads or harnesses kept within two metres under the Animal Protection Act, and waste bags required; accessibility is marked 'very difficult'.) ·
Nearby
Saeyeongyo Bridge
A pedestrian-only bridge linking Seogwipo Port to Saeseom Island. Its name means 'a bridge that makes new bonds', and it is lit after dark.
Jeongbang Waterfall
Buy a ticket at the entrance and walk down about five minutes of pine-lined steps — there is no way to see the fall from the top. Sonammeori, on the cliff above it, is a Jeju April 3 site where detainees were summarily executed; the setting is a beauty spot and a killing ground at once.
Hallasan National Park
Choose the trail before planning transport: only Seongpanak (9.6 km) and Gwaneumsa (8.7 km) reach the summit, both need an advance reservation, and both turn walkers back at a mid-mountain control point if they arrive after the cut-off. Every other trail is a half-day walk with no summit at the end of it.
Gwaneumsa Temple
A temple at 650 metres on Hallasan's northern slope. The long narrow path to its entrance is the most photographed thing about it.
Stories about this place
- Half a day on Seogwipo's south shore — the route with no start time
Oedolgae, Saeyeongyo Bridge and Jeongbang Waterfall sit along Seogwipo's south coast within 2.5 km of each other as the crow flies. Only one of the three publishes an opening time, and the bridge tells you to telephone for the one hour that matters — when its lights come on. So this route has no start time. What sets the order is distance, not the clock.
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Where these facts come from
- Visit Jeju — Oedolgae (address 791 Seohong-dong; a rock pillar standing about 20 m above the sea; what is left of a lava field eroded by the waves; the sea cliffs and sea caves around it; the point where Jeju Olle Trail Course 7 passes; the name Janggunbawi from the General Choe Yeong story, and the waiting-woman story. It is listed as Scenic Site No. 79, its visitor note reads open at all times, every day of the year, dogs of any size admitted, leads or harnesses kept within two metres under the Animal Protection Act, and waste bags required; accessibility is marked 'very difficult'.) ·
- OpenStreetMap — the 외돌개 rock node, the sea stack itself. OSM reverse-geocodes the point to Daeryun-dong while Visit Jeju publishes the address as 791 Seohong-dong; the stack sits on the boundary between the two. Both address and coordinate follow Visit Jeju, and the two objects agree to within about 140 m. ·