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Book yourself a course of the Gunsan Time Travel 1930s (군산시간여행) this weekend!
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Book yourself a course of the Gunsan Time Travel 1930s (군산시간여행) this weekend!
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  • 승인 2022.03.16 12:25
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Having been through the painful Japanese colonial period, Gunsan is a city containing many important historical sites that represent the precious historical values of Korea.
Let's find out what there is in the Gunsan time travel 1930s!

As the paradigm of urban development has recently changed to urban regeneration, the Gunsan Modern Culture City project is being lit up as an advanced model.

The original downtown areas of Gunsan, buried in the painful memories of the Japanese colonial period, are waking up as an educational and cultural space for future generations who can correctly understand modern and contemporary history under the theme of “Gunsan Time Travel 1930s”.

Gunsan Modern History Museum

Since 2009, various modern historical and cultural resources possessed by Gunsan have been restored, and the Gunsan Modern Cultural Heritage Belting District, which guides you back to the 1930s, is considered a differentiated cultural tourism destination and attracts tourists from all over the country on weekends.

Now, let us introduce you to the 12 tourist attractions of Gunsan Time Travel 1930s!


  1. Gunsan Modern History Museum (근대역사박물관)
    Gunsan Modern History Museum (Photo by KTO)

Gunsan Modern History Museum is a specialized museum with the theme of modern culture and maritime culture of Gunsan, located in Gunsan, a city of modern history education. The museum, which opened on September 30, 2011, surpassed 400,000 visitors in 2014, and since its opening, the cumulative number of visitors exceeded 1 million, establishing itself as a representative tourist destination in the region.

  1. Gunsan Honam Customs Museum (호남관세박물관)
Gunsan Honam Customs Museum (Photo by KTO)

Completed in 1908 / Along with Seoul Station and the Bank of Korea Headquarters, it is one of the three classic Western classical buildings in Korea.

  1. Gunsan Modern Art Museum (근대미술관)
Gunsan Modern Art Museum

As a bank headquartered in Nagasaki, Japan, the number 18 indicates the order of bank establishment. In the Gunsan Branch of the 18th Bank of Japan (National Cultural Property No. 372), you can see the characteristics of the bank building at that time. It was transformed from a financial institution building established to export grain to Japan during the Japanese colonial period and to sell land to a modern art museum.

Gunsan Modern Art Museum
  1. Modern Architecture Hall (근대건축관)
    Modern Architecture Hall 

Formerly, this was the Bank of Korea Gunsan Branch. As a bank building built in 1922, it was a representative bank that symbolized aggressive capitalism during the Japanese colonial period. In 2008, it was used as the Gunsan Modern Architecture Center after undergoing repair and restoration.

  1. Jinpo Marine Theme Park (진포해양공원)
Jinpo Marine Theme Park

Opened in 2008 to commemorate the Battle of Jinpo, in which General Choi Mu-Seon built a gun and defeated 500 Japanese ships at the end of the Goryeo Dynasty.

  1. Bujan Bridge in Inner Harbor / Floating Pier (뜬다리 부두)
Bujan Bridge in Inner Harbor then and now

Considering that Gunsan Inner Port is the center of maritime trade and logistics, Japan built a floating bridge that went up and down according to the water level for import and export cargo operations after the port opened in 1899.

  1. Haemangul Tunnel (해망굴)
Haemangul Tunnel 

It is a civil engineering facility completed in 1926 as a tunnel passing through Haemangryeong to connect Haemang-dong and downtown Gunsan during the Japanese colonial period.

  1. Grassland Photo Studio (초원사진관)
    Grassland Photo Studio

It is a representative tourist attraction in Gunsan as the filming location for Christmas in August starring Han Seok-gyu and Shim Eun-ha, released in 1998.

  1. Shinheung-dong Japanese House / Hirotsu House (신흥동 일본식가옥)
Shinheung-dong Japanese House

Shinheung-dong Japanese-style house (National Cultural Property No. 183), which was a Japanese house that operated a cloth shop and a small farm in Gunsan during the Japanese colonial period, is a two-story house with an 'L'-shaped two-story house and a Japanese garden. It is famous as a filming location for 'Tazza'.

  1. Yeomilang (여미랑)
Yeomilang

Yeomilang (Forget Me, Unmi, Sarang Chae-rang) means not to forget the painful history and the memories made while staying overnight. It is an experience space and accommodation facility of a Japanese-style house in Jeoksan, is a space restored to modern Gunsan life in the 1930s, where you can experience a tatami room.

  1. Gunsan Protest Hall (군산 항쟁관)

It is a space created to inform that Gunsan is the site of the first March 1st Independence Movement in Jeollabuk-do, and to learn the sense of national struggle and pain in history.

  1. Dongguksa Temple (동국사 대웅전)
Dongguksa Temple (Photo by KTO)

Dongguksa Temple, a Japanese-style temple with a steep roof, with a corridor connecting Daeungjeon and Yosachae, where monks live, overflows with over 1,000 people on weekends. It is famous as the only remaining Japanese-style temple in Korea.

Each of these destinations holds so much of historical significance. With the vision of elevating these historical sites, the Gunsan city government has been renovating them to bring modern people into time travel, back to the painful and heroic memories of Korea in the Japanese colonial period, and evoke love and pride for this country. If you are a history lover, you must definitely try a Gunsan Time Travel 1930s!


For more inquiries, visit: 

Gunsan-si (군산시)


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