About the Ssangryong Valley

• Ssangryong Valley

  Ssangryong Valley is the last 4 km valley in Dojangsan, the upper part of the Nongamcheon stream, before the eastern valley water of Sokrisan peak joins the Nakdong River.
  Ssangryong Valley is surrounded by fantastic rocks and stratified rocky cliffs of Dojangsan and Bulilsan, holding its mystery over a long time, as if the Creator was proud of his own work. Jade-like clear water makes great rock sculptures as it turns, flows, and breaks at each turn.
  Poets and painters have long loved it. It is called Ssangyong Valley (Ssang: two, yong: dragon) because it is said that a blue dragon and a yellow dragon lived at Yongchu. The valley features the Seonyeotang Pond where celestial fairies were said to come down from the heaven on moonlit nights in order to bathe in the water clearer than the Milky Way in the quiet valley. Seonyeotang is a pond down the waterfall rocks, from which water fog rises. The legend says that the son of the dragon king, who used to live here, learned literature from the priests Yunpil and Uisang, who stayed at Simwonsa Temple. In return for learning, gifts such as Moon Sickle, Wolbu, and Brass Bell were presented, of which only the Brass Bell has remained at Wonjeoksa Temple.

• Address

  Naeseori, Nongam-myeon, Mungyeong-si

• Local transportation
  • Bus from Mungyeong downtown to Nongam, departs every 30 minutes. It takes 30~40 minutes.
  • Mungyeong-si → Hamchang-eup local road No. 32 → Nongam-myeon, turn left → 6 km → Sangryong Valley
• Getting here

  From Seoul
  Jungbu Highway → Hobeop Turnpike → Yeongdong Highway → Yeoju Turnpike → Jungbu Naeryuk Highway → Mungyeongsaejae IC → Nongam-myeon

  From Daegu
  Gyeongbu Highway → Gimcheon Turnpike → Jungbu Naeryuk Highway → Jeomchon Hamchang IC → Nongam-myeon