Ecotourism of Cities and Counties

Gunsan Cheongamsan Eco-Round

Natural Ecology Resources

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Cheongamsan eco-round

After designated as water supply source preservation area in 1963, access was forbidden until 2009, and led the area to become eminent natural scenery and stable habitats for living creatures. In Cheongamsan mountain, surrounded by Gunsan lake, there are many vegetation and animals living – twenty-nine species of birds, four-hundred nineteen species of vegetation and thirty-eight species of insects and etc, whole four-hundred eighty-six species of lifes- Legal protected endangered wild species like stork(first-class), prickly waterlily(second-class), mandarin duck(natural monument no.327) are included. Around water edge explore road you can see cattaii, water chestnut and experience various beautiful natural sceneries. By walking through Guseulmoe-gil, one of the walking trail roads along with Bidangang-gil, Haetbit-gil, Dalbalgeum-gil, kendeul-gil, Miso-gil, you will be able to arrive at Chungamsan eco-round.


Address
Jeollabuk-do Gunsan-si Oksan-myeon Oksan-ri 679
Inquiry
063-454-4252 (Environment Policy Division, Gunsan-si)

Euryale ferox (Prickly Water Lily)

Euryale ferox is a dicotyledonous, Nymphaeales-order, Nymphaeaceae-family, annual plant. It is also called as nuphar japonica. Spikes are sprouting over its body, and grows in the swamp or pond. The surface of the leaf is wrinkled and shiny, and on the other side visibly show leaf vein with purple-black color, and spikes come up on the both sides of leaf vein. In summer, a long flower stalk with throns grows, and a purple flower about 4cm in diameter blooms. The fruit is round with a thorn on the surface.

Experience Program

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Guard for Ecology of Cheongam Mountain Explore Cheongam Mountain and Gunsan Lake and learn about about ecology and history of each section.

 

- Target : All ages (minimum number of people : 5)
- Operation Time : April ~ November
- Time Required : 2 hours


Participation Fee
Free
Inquiry
☎  010-4190-4077 (Eco Manager)

☎  063-454-4252 (Environment Policy Division, Gunsan-si)

Natural ecology resource
/ Historical culture resource

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Balsan-ri Five Storied Pagoda Balsan-ri Five Storied Pagoda, a stone tower which was selected as Korea’s 276th treasure, was originally located at Bongrimsa temple site. But during the Japanese occupation period, a Japanese farmland proprietor named Yasoya Shimatani illegally collected numbers of stone cultural properties and moved them to the current location. The pagoda has a significant value because its high stereobates of this pagoda shows a typical design style of Shilla dynasty, as well as it is a distinctive proof of illegal dispossession done by Japanese people. It was originally built as a five-storied tower, but currently only four stories are left. The design of its stereobate is almost identical to other pagodas created in Shilla dynasty, and on each corner a pillar, named Wuju, is carved.

Between two Wujus another middle-pillar is carved and it is called Taengju. Every story of the body also has Wuju on the corner. The roof is steep, and the end of the roof is slight curved and heading upward. The roof is supported by a three-layered floor called Okseok. These features are usually shown in properties built in Goryeo dynasty.

Address
Jeollabuk-do Province Gunsan-si Gaejung-myeon Barueme-gil 43
(Balsan Elementary School)
Inquiry
063-450-4225

Lodging

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Chungamsan Mountain Auto-camping Site
Jeollabuk-do Province Gunsan-si Oksan-myeon Daewi-ro 50
063-465-3357
Theme Garden B&B
Jeollabuk-do Province Gunsan-si Okgu-eup Seonje-ri 543-9
063-465-7262
Jangsu Hwangto Sauna
Jeollabuk-do Province Gunsan-si Okgu-eup Hanmeol-gil 2
064-464-9998
Goudang
Jeollabuk-do Province Gunsan-si Guyoung 6 gil
063-443-1042
Nadeuri Guest House
Jeollabuk-do Province Gunsan-si Wolmyeong-ro 490
063-445-1514

Recommended Course

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Go to Gun-san Culture Tour

Coordinate Tourism

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Geumgang Migratory Bird Observatory Built in west coast’s wide mud flat and field of reeds where migratory birds fly into every winter. The purpose of the observatory was to make visitors feel the beauty of natural scenery by observing the habitat of migratory birds and that protecting the ecosystem is important task. It was opened in 2003.

Address Jeollabuk-do Gunsan-si Seongsan-myeon cheolsae-ro 120
Inquiry 063-454-5683

Gogunsan Islands travel (Seonyudo Island)Gogunsan Isalnds is a sightseeing spot with 16 inhabited, 47 uninhabited islands, and 63 annexed islands. Located 45km from Gunsan, has marvelous natural view and mud flat such as Seonyu eight views and beach just as it was in the old days.

Address Jeollabuk-do Gunsan-si Okdo-myeon Sun
Inquiry 063-454-3337

A Bio-resource Survey

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Biological distribution range

Cheongam mountain area

Remark

Hygrophytes are well preserved inside and around the reservoir, where human access has been restricted until it was removed from water source conservation area in 2008. There are many wild mushrooms along the path in the bamboo forest. There is a tea-plant habitat, across the entrance of the reservoir, near the Udong village.

  • Skygager
    Fish

    Skygagers inhabit in large creeks that flow to the West Sea of Korea; they are usually found to be eating animals in deep and slow water of mid or downstream. They are large size fish, about 40 to 50 cm long. The trunk is flat and the mouth is facing upwards. The lateral line is perfect and there is a sharp bump between ventral fin and anal. The species’ body color is silver with no pattern on fins. They spawn between May and July.

  • Korean St John’s Wort (Gochoo Namul)
    Plant

    The flowers bloom between July and August, and fall on the day of bloom. The yellow flowers with diameter of 15 to 20mm, grow out at the end of branches, forming a cone-like inflorescence. The species bears red fruits, resembling red peppers (referred as Gochoo in Korea), from September to October. Korean usually cooked the fresh sprouts as Namul (Korean vegetable dish); this is where the plant name Gochoo namul is derived from. The fruits that are smaller than red peppers, grow upwards facing the sky. In rural areas, people have believed ashes of Gochoo namul ward off evil spirits, so that they put ashes all around the house.

  • Symplocos chinensis for. Pilosa (Norinje Namoo)
    Plant

    The species is strong enough to be grown in anywhere, but is usually cultivated in soil with good drainage. The name is driven from Hwanghwemok, a tree that was widely used for natural dyes. For natural dyeing, a mordant is needed to attach the color elements on fabrics; a yellow powder made out of norinje namoo is a perfect mordant.

  • Damsel fly (Calopteryx japonica)
    Insect

    The species’ hind wings are 32mm to 40mm long and the abdomen is 42mm to 26mm long. The compound eyes are dark. The body color is shiny metallic green; female damsel flies are slightly darker, almost black. Only the females have off-white ripple mark on the edge of the front wings. Damsel flies fold their glossy-black wings when at rest and dwell near the waterside. Each damsel fly eats a large amount of other insects and controls other insects’ population.

  • Pigmy water-lily
    Insect

    Pigmy water-lily is a perennial floating leaved water plant that can be observed in ponds or swamps near the ocean. The rhizome is short. The horseshoe-shape leaves float in the water. The leaves are 2 to 5.5 cm long and 2 to 4 cm wide and they grow out around the root. The bottom of the leaf is heart-shaped, and the edge is sharp – longer and thicker than the top of the leaf. The thin and long petioles float in the water.

  • Raccoon
    Animal

    Raccoons are the most adaptable of all mammals in Korea; they live near the city center, and have a large population. They are usually active at night, but they can be seen during the day as well. They pretend to be dead when they are caught. They flocked together for defecation; you may find almost everything, from plastic bags, rubber gloves, rice seeds to ginko nuts in their feces. It is natural to think them as the best street cleaning species in Korea.

  • Bagworm
    Insect

    Bagworms eat lichens and barks in the bag that they made themselves with their saliva, and transform – from larva to imago – in between April to July, once a year. Due to the neoteny of female bagworms, male and female figures of the imago are completely different. While a male bagworm grows into an ordinary moth, a female bagworm is not really different from a larva even when it is fully matured.

  • Asiatic jasmine
    Plant

    It is an evergreen climber with broad leaves that grows to over 5 m tall. It attaches to rocks and old trees at the foot of the mountain. The branches are reddish-brown and hairy. The leaf is a shape of oval or long oval with a sharp tip and a round bottom; it is 2 to 5 cm long and 1 to 3 cm wide, and grows in an alternate (spiral) leaf pattern. The upper leaf surface is glossy-dark green and with or without hair on the back.

  • Catfish
    Fish

    The average size of catfish is about 27cm, but some are over 1m long. It has 2 pairs of barbels, a small dorsal fin and an anal fin that is connected to a caudal fin. Catfish lives on mud floors of streams, swamps and lake, and is nocturnal. It usually feeds on invertebrates and other fish. Catfish spawn in between May and July, as a male catfish coils around a female catfish to induce spawning.

  • Eel
    Fish

    Eel is a very long and slim – about 60cm long. It has scales covered by skin and doesn’t have a ventral fin. Its back is greenish gray and its belly is white or yellow. It is a carnivore, usually feed on benthic invertebrates, and active at night. It lays eggs during spring and summer; the bamboo leaf- shaped larva of the eel, Leptocephalus, travels with ocean current. Then it transforms to a glass eel and moves to a creek to be fully matured.

  • Daimyo Skipper Butterfly
    Insect

    The wings are black with white patterns on the front wings ( 3 big patterns and 5 to 7 small patterns ). The front sides of the rear wings are usually black, except the species found in southern part; they tend to have white stripes. Daimyo Skipper Butterfly metamorphose twice a year. They fly in low altitude with agility and drink nectar from mock-orange, bumalda bladdernut, Korean thistle, autumn elaeagnus, and selfheal.

  • Eurasian Red Squirrel
    Animal

    They usually live on trees and rarely come down to the ground. Unlike squirrels, they do not hibernate, but have long hair on the ear tips during winter. Farmers usually hate Eurasian Red Squirrels, because they harm farms as they are getting pine nuts and walnuts. You can find their inhabitation with traces of empty pine cones.

  • Kestrel
    Bird

    It is around 30 to 33cm in length. It propagates in urban buildings on rare occasions, but mostly it propagates in mountains using the nests of common buzzard or sparrow hawk. It also lays eggs on a rock of a cliff or a pit on a mud wall; when it does, it lays 4-6 eggs at a time. The incubation period is about 28 to 31 days, and the brooding takes about 27 to 33 days.

  • Spot-billed duck
    Bird

    They feed on various kinds of plants and small animals in swamps and grasslands; they usually eat ears of rice on the fields or water plants in shallow water during winter. They flock together on a family basis during the breeding season, but in the winter, they flock with a bigger group. They are one of the most common winter visitors in Korea along with mallard duck.

  • Source by

    National Institute of Biological Resources
    (https://species.nibr.go.kr)

    Korea National Arboretum
    (https://www.nature.go.kr)

A Bio-resource Survey

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Biological distribution range

Cheongam mountain area

Remark

Hygrophytes are well preserved inside and around the reservoir, where human access has been restricted until it was removed from water source conservation area in 2008. There are many wild mushrooms along the path in the bamboo forest. There is a tea-plant habitat, across the entrance of the reservoir, near the Udong village.

  • Skygager
    Fish

    Skygagers inhabit in large creeks that flow to the West Sea of Korea; they are usually found to be eating animals in deep and slow water of mid or downstream. They are large size fish, about 40 to 50 cm long. The trunk is flat and the mouth is facing upwards. The lateral line is perfect and there is a sharp bump between ventral fin and anal. The species’ body color is silver with no pattern on fins. They spawn between May and July.

  • Korean St John’s Wort (Gochoo Namul)
    Plant

    The flowers bloom between July and August, and fall on the day of bloom. The yellow flowers with diameter of 15 to 20mm, grow out at the end of branches, forming a cone-like inflorescence. The species bears red fruits, resembling red peppers (referred as Gochoo in Korea), from September to October. Korean usually cooked the fresh sprouts as Namul (Korean vegetable dish); this is where the plant name Gochoo namul is derived from. The fruits that are smaller than red peppers, grow upwards facing the sky. In rural areas, people have believed ashes of Gochoo namul ward off evil spirits, so that they put ashes all around the house.

  • Symplocos chinensis for. Pilosa (Norinje Namoo)
    Plant

    The species is strong enough to be grown in anywhere, but is usually cultivated in soil with good drainage. The name is driven from Hwanghwemok, a tree that was widely used for natural dyes. For natural dyeing, a mordant is needed to attach the color elements on fabrics; a yellow powder made out of norinje namoo is a perfect mordant.

  • Damsel fly (Calopteryx japonica)
    Insect

    The species’ hind wings are 32mm to 40mm long and the abdomen is 42mm to 26mm long. The compound eyes are dark. The body color is shiny metallic green; female damsel flies are slightly darker, almost black. Only the females have off-white ripple mark on the edge of the front wings. Damsel flies fold their glossy-black wings when at rest and dwell near the waterside. Each damsel fly eats a large amount of other insects and controls other insects’ population.

  • Pigmy water-lily
    Insect

    Pigmy water-lily is a perennial floating leaved water plant that can be observed in ponds or swamps near the ocean. The rhizome is short. The horseshoe-shape leaves float in the water. The leaves are 2 to 5.5 cm long and 2 to 4 cm wide and they grow out around the root. The bottom of the leaf is heart-shaped, and the edge is sharp – longer and thicker than the top of the leaf. The thin and long petioles float in the water.

  • Raccoon
    Animal

    Raccoons are the most adaptable of all mammals in Korea; they live near the city center, and have a large population. They are usually active at night, but they can be seen during the day as well. They pretend to be dead when they are caught. They flocked together for defecation; you may find almost everything, from plastic bags, rubber gloves, rice seeds to ginko nuts in their feces. It is natural to think them as the best street cleaning species in Korea.

  • Bagworm
    Insect

    Bagworms eat lichens and barks in the bag that they made themselves with their saliva, and transform – from larva to imago – in between April to July, once a year. Due to the neoteny of female bagworms, male and female figures of the imago are completely different. While a male bagworm grows into an ordinary moth, a female bagworm is not really different from a larva even when it is fully matured.

  • Asiatic jasmine
    Plant

    It is an evergreen climber with broad leaves that grows to over 5 m tall. It attaches to rocks and old trees at the foot of the mountain. The branches are reddish-brown and hairy. The leaf is a shape of oval or long oval with a sharp tip and a round bottom; it is 2 to 5 cm long and 1 to 3 cm wide, and grows in an alternate (spiral) leaf pattern. The upper leaf surface is glossy-dark green and with or without hair on the back.

  • Catfish
    Fish

    The average size of catfish is about 27cm, but some are over 1m long. It has 2 pairs of barbels, a small dorsal fin and an anal fin that is connected to a caudal fin. Catfish lives on mud floors of streams, swamps and lake, and is nocturnal. It usually feeds on invertebrates and other fish. Catfish spawn in between May and July, as a male catfish coils around a female catfish to induce spawning.

  • Eel
    Fish

    Eel is a very long and slim – about 60cm long. It has scales covered by skin and doesn’t have a ventral fin. Its back is greenish gray and its belly is white or yellow. It is a carnivore, usually feed on benthic invertebrates, and active at night. It lays eggs during spring and summer; the bamboo leaf- shaped larva of the eel, Leptocephalus, travels with ocean current. Then it transforms to a glass eel and moves to a creek to be fully matured.

  • Daimyo Skipper Butterfly
    Insect

    The wings are black with white patterns on the front wings ( 3 big patterns and 5 to 7 small patterns ). The front sides of the rear wings are usually black, except the species found in southern part; they tend to have white stripes. Daimyo Skipper Butterfly metamorphose twice a year. They fly in low altitude with agility and drink nectar from mock-orange, bumalda bladdernut, Korean thistle, autumn elaeagnus, and selfheal.

  • Eurasian Red Squirrel
    Animal

    They usually live on trees and rarely come down to the ground. Unlike squirrels, they do not hibernate, but have long hair on the ear tips during winter. Farmers usually hate Eurasian Red Squirrels, because they harm farms as they are getting pine nuts and walnuts. You can find their inhabitation with traces of empty pine cones.

  • Kestrel
    Bird

    It is around 30 to 33cm in length. It propagates in urban buildings on rare occasions, but mostly it propagates in mountains using the nests of common buzzard or sparrow hawk. It also lays eggs on a rock of a cliff or a pit on a mud wall; when it does, it lays 4-6 eggs at a time. The incubation period is about 28 to 31 days, and the brooding takes about 27 to 33 days.

  • Spot-billed duck
    Bird

    They feed on various kinds of plants and small animals in swamps and grasslands; they usually eat ears of rice on the fields or water plants in shallow water during winter. They flock together on a family basis during the breeding season, but in the winter, they flock with a bigger group. They are one of the most common winter visitors in Korea along with mallard duck.

Source by

National Institute of Biological Resources (https://species.nibr.go.kr)

Korea National Arboretum (https://www.nature.go.kr)