West coast · Boryeong, South Chungcheong
Daecheon Beach
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The mud festival beach — and the west coast's biggest stretch of sand.
Daecheon is the largest beach on the west coast and the reason a lot of foreign visitors end up in Boryeong: the Boryeong Mud Festival takes it over for two weeks in July.
Outside the festival it is a wide, shallow, gently shelving beach with a long promenade, and the west-coast sunsets are the draw.
Photograph by Ken Eckert, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized for this page.
More on the west coast
Eurwangni Beach
Thirty minutes from Incheon Airport — the easiest beach in Korea to reach on a layover.
Kkotji Beach
Two rocks in the surf that the sun sets between — the classic west-coast sunset.
Sinduri Beach & Dunes
The largest coastal sand dunes in Korea, protected behind the beach.