Damyang Travel Course: Safety, Relaxation, and Inspiration Together

Damyang is a city where nature, tradition, and safe experiences blend seamlessly. This course, which encompasses learning, relaxation, and emotional enrichment, begins at the Damyang Safety Experience Center, where you can enjoy safe and engaging indoor activities. A stroll along the Metasequoia Road offers the tranquility of the forest, while lunch provides the opportunity to savor local delicacies such as *dwaegalbbi* (grilled beef), *daetongbap* (bamboo rice), and noodles, allowing you to experience the unique flavors of the region. In the afternoon, you can immerse yourself in the charm of Damyang by visiting the Kwanbangjeolrim (a group of trees), the Juknokwon bamboo forest, and the nostalgic alleyways. At Delight Damyang, you can also experience a sensory-rich media exhibition.

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Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency, Damyang Safety Experience Center

The Damyang Safety Experience Center is a space where visitors learn by directly experiencing accident situations that can occur in daily life, designed so that people of all ages, from children to seniors, can raise their safety awareness.

Damyang Metasequoia-lined Road

Besides its bamboo groves, Damyang has roadside metasequoia trees that create an exotic, fantastic landscape. From afar they look like fairies sitting in a row, or like a toy-land train. Seen from the middle of the road, they look just like British royal guards on parade.

Damyang Food Theme Street

Centered on Juknokwon, the Damyang Food Theme Street offers bamboo rice, tteok-galbi (grilled short rib patties), bamboo shoot dishes and Damyang noodles. It is raising the standard of food tourism not only in taste and variety but also in hygiene and friendly service.

Gwanbangjerim Forest

Gwanbangje is an embankment along Gwanbangcheon stream, about 6km long from Dongjeongja village in Namsan-ri, Damyang-eup, through Hwanggeum-ri in Subuk-myeon, to Gangui-ri in Daejeon-myeon. It is famous for the large scenic forest spanning about 2km, called Gwanbangjerim, where trees estimated to be 300 to 400 years old fill an area of 49,228㎡.

Juknokwon (Bamboo Garden)

Juknokwon is a bamboo forest visible immediately on the left after passing the hyanggyo (Confucian school) that sits between Gwanbangjerim and the Damyangcheon Stream, the source of the Yeongsangang River. It is a lush bamboo forest of about 160,000㎡, created by Damyang County around Seongansan Mountain and opened in May 2003. Climbing the stone steps one by one from the entrance of Juknokwon loosens up your stiff body, and the bamboo breeze blowing between the bamboo stalks brings a refreshing feeling to body and mind weary from daily life. Also, walking the densely packed bamboo forest path while listening to the rustling of bamboo leaves, the feeling of receiving with your whole body the energy of sunlight pouring through the green bamboo leaves is truly refreshing.

Delight Damyang

Delight Damyang, an immersive media art exhibition hall, takes Damyang's history and culture as its theme. Sculptures blend with the building's exterior from the entrance, and inside, visitors can see the moon shining over Damyang's iconic bamboo forest, making it a popular photo spot.

Damyang Nostalgia Alley

Damyang Memory Alley, which displays daily life from around Liberation through the 1980s, is a modern history exhibition hall and film set that evokes childhood nostalgia. It is packed with memories of the chick seller in front of the school, sweet junk food, cartoons watched huddled around the TV, and music players of those days.