Let's Walk a Pleasant Path with Good Company and Good Food

Heal your mind by viewing a variety of artworks and watching birds fly freely over the reed wetland park. Spending the day with family or someone you love will make it even more memorable. Ansan is a region full of fun and unusual things to do, and being close to Seoul, it makes a perfect day-trip destination.

Along the way

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   Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art

   경기도미술관

   Opened in October 2006, the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art offers a wide range of cultural services, running exhibitions by Korean and international artists alongside programs for art collection, research, education, and public outreach. Through diverse special exhibitions that balance expertise and artistry with local and global perspectives, it has established itself as a landmark of art and culture. With the ecological lake in the park as its backdrop, the museum building's glass facade gives it a clear, pleasant feel, while its high-ceilinged galleries, home to a range of special exhibitions, allow it to fully serve its role as a museum of contemporary art. \nMoreLess

   

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   Ansan Reed Wetland Park

   안산갈대습지공원

   Ansan Reed Wetland Park was built by K-water (the Korea Water Resources Corporation) to improve the water quality of the tributary streams (Banwolcheon, Donghwacheon, and Samhwacheon) that flow into Lake Sihwa. Using reeds and other aquatic plants, it functions as a natural purification-type sewage treatment facility, and at 314,000 pyeong, it was Korea's first large-scale artificial wetland. It also serves as an ecological park where city dwellers, who rarely get to be close to nature, can rest in a natural setting and observe and learn how the creatures that make up the ecosystem live.\nMoreLess

   

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   Lunch (Sangnok Hanjeongsik)

   점심식사(상록한정식)

   Rice cooked with care from 'King's Rice,' grown in Icheon, Gyeonggi-do, is served alongside savory doenjang soup, doenjang jjigae, dongchimi (radish water kimchi), three-color savory pancakes, cod clear soup, steamed fish, samhap (a three-way combination platter), live fish sashimi, smoked duck, and other side dishes, all neat and clean. Pine-scented landscaping and traditional handicrafts also give guests something to look at. \nMoreLess

   

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   Tomb of General Nam Yi (Hwaseong)

   남이장군 묘(화성)

   The tomb of General Nam Yi, a military official of the Joseon King Sejo's reign, sits on a low hill about 3km northwest of Yangno-ri, where the Bibong-myeon office is located. In front of the burial mound stands an offering table, to its left a tombstone, and flanking it stone guardian pillars (mangdu-seok). It is designated Gyeonggi-do Monument No. 13. \nThis is the tomb of Nam Yi (1443–1468), a military official under King Sejo of Joseon. The general's clan seat was Uiryeong; he was a great-grandson of King Taejong on his mother's side, and the son-in-law of Chief State Councillor Gwon Ram.\nMoreLess

   

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   Changmun Art Center

   창문아트센터

   Changmun Art Center is an open creative space overflowing with the spirit of art, set up by eleven university professors and full-time artists inside a closed-down school. It was founded from a shared dream of letting children enjoy culture from an early age so they grow into adults who know how to appreciate art. It is equipped with exhibition halls, resource rooms, and other creative spaces for each artist's own work, as well as a practice studio where visitors can experience eco-friendly sculptural learning, and it operates as an open learning space running environmental-sculpture programs under expert guidance.\nMoreLess

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