Jeongdongjin (정동진), also known as Chongdongjin, is in Gangwon, South Korea.

Understand

View over Jeongdongjin

Jeongdongjin is a favorite destination for young couples in Korea because of its romantic scenery and white sand. From the top of the cliffs where you can look down on Jeongdongjin Station, and there is a sculpture park surrounded by palm trees. It was a set of a Korean television series, Sandglass, and it made Jeongdongjin train station famous.

Get in

Jeongdongjin station

• 1 Jeongdongjin station. Jeongdongjin has apparently the world's most closely situated train station to the ocean (at least according to the Guinness Book of Records.  

See

North Korean Sang-O submarine that ran aground in South Korean waters near Gangneung, in 1996

Sleep

Sun Cruise Resort

• 1 Sun Cruise Resort & Yacht. Unusual hotel built in the shape of a cruise ship on a hill overlooking the ocean. A sight seeing attraction in itself. (updated Nov 2016)