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Jeongdongjin Station And Train
Jeongdongjin (also Chongdongjin) is a town near Gangneung, South Korea, and one of the most popular sites in Korea for watching the sunrise on New Year's Day. ''The Korea Herald'', December 29, 2009. Retrieved 2011-08-20. It is eighteen kilometers south-east of Gangneung on the east coast of Korea along the . History 
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Jeongdongjin Beach
Jeongdongjin (also Chongdongjin) is a town near Gangneung, South Korea, and one of the most popular sites in Korea for watching the sunrise on New Year's Day. ''The Korea Herald'', December 29, 2009. Retrieved 2011-08-20. It is eighteen kilometers south-east of Gangneung on the east coast of Korea along the . History
In ancient times, at Jeongdongjin the King held a memorial service for the
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Pacific Saury
The Pacific saury (''Cololabis saira'') is a member of the family Scomberesocidae. Saury is a seafood in several East Asian cuisines and is also known by the name mackerel pike. Biology Saury is a fish with a small mouth, an elongated body, a series of small finlets between the dorsal and anal fins, and a small forked tail. The fish's color is dark green to blue on the dorsal surface, silvery below, and there are small, bright blue blotches distributed randomly on the sides. It is about 25-30 cm long when caught, but it can grow up to 40 cm long and is about 180 grams when caught in the autumn. Saury will be at most four years old. Saury is a pelagic fish and wants to stay close to the surface and is caught there, but it can also be down to a depth of up to 230 m. When saury is escaping from predators, it floats on the surface and is similar to other fish within the genus. These pelagic schooling fish are found in the North Pacific, from China, Korea and Japan eastward to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Train (Korail)
Sea Train () is a South Korean tourist train operated by the Korail Tourism Development. The train began operations in 2007 and transports tourists along the eastern coast of South Korea. Overview The train began running on July 25, 2007, and travels 58 kilometers (36 miles) through Gangneung, Donghae, and Samcheok all in Gangwon-do, providing views of the Sea of Japan. These three communities, along with Korail, developed the rail trip, with Korail contributing the passenger train service and the railroad, and the communities investing money to modify ordinary passenger cars into ones with seats that faced the sea. Sometimes called the "ocean train", it was one of the industrial-era train renovations and part of Korail's Tourism Development initiative in the mid-2000s to change existing coal industry railway lines, where service had declined, into tour lines. The train has four cars, three of them with seats that face the windows, for a full ocean-view and the fourth car ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeongdongjin Station
Jeongdongjin station () is a railway station on the Yeongdong Line of Korail, the station closest to the beach in South Korea, and a popular cross country train destination from Seoul, for sunrise viewing. It is listed in the Guinness World Records as being the closest station and tracks to a beach anywhere in the world. Location The station, situated on the seashore of the Sea of Japan (East Sea), in Jeongdongjin in Gangneung, Gangwon-do, is the second station on the Yeongdong Line of Korail, in Gangwon-do, as it travels south along South Korea's eastern coast. It is located south of the Gangneung Station, where Yeongdong Line starts, and north of the third stop at Mukho station, Donghae, Gangwon-do. From Cheongnyangni Station, Seoul to Jeongdongjin is five hours, by direct passenger service. History The station opened in 1962 and was established originally for passenger and freight transport. However, as the coal industry prospered and the line started transporting mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sun Cruise Resort & Yacht
Sun Cruise Resort & Yacht is a hotel resort in Jeongdongjin on the east coast of South Korea. Designed in the image of a cruise ship, notably the Royal Caribbean International , the hotel is long and tall and overlooks the beach resort. Built at the top of a large cliff, the hotel looks out over the sea and gives the impression that a cruise ship has run aground. The hotel has 211 rooms, including bedrooms and apartments, and six function rooms. There are six restaurants serving Korean and European food and a rotating bar on the top floor. Sporting facilities include a netted golf range, volleyball court, and a fitness club. The cruise ship theme is emphasised by the sound of crashing waves played on speakers throughout the hotel and the use of salt water in the swimming pool. The resort also contains a park located adjacent to the hotel. Prominent within the landscaped gardens are "The Hands of Promise", two giant hands rising from the ground, along with a variety of other sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandglass (TV Series)
''Sandglass'' (; also known as ''The Hourglass'') is a South Korean television series. It is one of the highest-rated Korean dramas in history, and is also considered one of the most significant. Written by Song Ji-na, directed by Kim Jong-hak and produced by their own company Jcom, it aired on SBS in 1995 in 24 episodes. A depiction of the tragic relationship among three friends affected by the political and civilian oppression of 1970s and 1980s Korea, the series mixed politics, melodrama, and action. It recorded a peak rating of 64.5%, the fourth highest of all time, and launched its leading trio of Choi Min-soo, Go Hyun-jung, and Park Sang-won into stardom. Its reenactment of the Gwangju Uprising (interspersed with archival video footage) has been called one of the most realistic and memorable moments in Korean TV history. Synopsis ''Sandglass'' is the story of two men whose friendship is put to the test through the 1970s and 1980s, one of Korea's politically tumultuous peri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dano (Korean Festival)
Dano (Hangul: ), also called Surit-nal (Hangul: ), is a Korean traditional holiday that falls on the 5th day of the fifth month of the lunar Korean calendar. It is an official holiday in North Korea and one of the major traditional holidays in South Korea. South Korea has retained several festivals related to the holiday, one of which is '' Gangneung Dano Festival'' (Hangul: 강릉단오제) designated by UNESCO as a "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity". In the Mahan confederacy of ancient Korea, this was a day of spiritual rites, and enjoyment with song, dance, and wine. Traditionally, women washed their hair in water boiled with Sweet Flag (''changpo'' (Hangul: )), believed to make one's hair shiny. Women also put ''Angelica polymorpha'' ( ko, 궁궁이) flowers in their hair out of the belief that its aroma would repel evil. People wore blue and red clothes and dyed hairpins red with the iris roots. Men wore iris roots around their waist to ward off evil spirits. Herbs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lunar Year
A lunar calendar is a calendar based on the monthly cycles of the Moon's phases (synodic months, lunations), in contrast to solar calendars, whose annual cycles are based only directly on the solar year. The most commonly used calendar, the Gregorian calendar, is a solar calendar system that originally evolved out of a lunar calendar system. A purely lunar calendar is also distinguished from a lunisolar calendar, whose lunar months are brought into alignment with the solar year through some process of intercalation. The details of when months begin vary from calendar to calendar, with some using new, full, or crescent moons and others employing detailed calculations. Since each lunation is approximately days, (which gives a mean synodic month as 29.53059 days or 29 days 12 hours 44 minutes and 3 seconds) it is common for the months of a lunar calendar to alternate between 29 and 30 days. Since the period of 12 such lunations, a lunar year, is 354 days, 8 ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeongdongjin (2006)
Jeongdongjin (also Chongdongjin) is a town near Gangneung, South Korea, and one of the most popular sites in Korea for watching the sunrise on New Year's Day. ''The Korea Herald'', December 29, 2009. Retrieved 2011-08-20. It is eighteen kilometers south-east of Gangneung on the east coast of Korea along the . History
In ancient times, at Jeongdongjin the King held a memorial service for the
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Gangneung
Gangneung () is a municipal city in the province of Gangwon-do, on the east coast of South Korea. It has a population of 213,658 (as of 2017).Gangneung City (2003)Population & Households. Retrieved January 14, 2006. Gangneung is the economic centre of the Yeongdong region of Gangwon-do. Gangneung has many tourist attractions, such as Jeongdongjin, a very popular area for watching the sun rise, and Gyeongpo Beach. There is an ROKAF airbase south of downtown Gangneung that formerly doubled as a civil airport. The city hosted all the ice events for the 2018 Winter Olympics. History Gangneung was the home of the Yemaek people in ancient times and became the land of Wiman Joseon in 129 BC. In 128 BC, Nam Ryeo, the army officer of Yaekam, punished Wujang of Wiman Korea and became the territory of the Han dynasty. In the 14th year of Goguryeo Muchheon (313), it entered Goguryeo territory. In 639, Silla occupied this place and ruled it as a 'Sogyeong' (). In 658, King Moo-yeo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Gangneung Submarine Infiltration Incident
The 1996 Gangneung submarine infiltration incident occurred on 18 September 1996, near the South Korean town of Gangneung. The incident was one of the more serious instances of North Korean espionage involving the Reconnaissance General Bureau, Reconnaissance Bureau (reconnaissance team and 22nd Squadron of the Maritime Department of the Reconnaissance Bureau). The raid was launched by North Korean armed spies to assassinate the President of South Korea, Kim Young-sam, during his visit to Chuncheon, on 5 October 1996. History Landing On 15 September 1996, a North Korean landed a three-person special operations reconnaissance team on the east coast of South Korea near Jeongdongjin, south-east of Gangneung, Gangwon-do (South Korea), Gangwon-do. Their mission was to spy on the naval installations in the area and then return. However, the larger mission was the assassination of South Korean President Kim Young-sam. The "reconnaissance team" alongside the submarine was to help drop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
766th Independent Infantry Regiment
, image = P'ohang-dong Map 1.jpg , caption = Map of the 766th Independent Infantry Regiment's final offensive action, August 10, 1950 , dates = April 1949 – August 19, 1950 , country = , allegiance = Korean People's Army , branch = Korean People's Army Ground Force , type = Commando , role = Amphibious warfareClose-quarters combatDirect actionForward observerIrregular warfareMountain warfareRaidingReconnaissanceUnconventional warfareUrban warfare , size = Regiment , notable_commanders = Senior Colonel Oh Jin Woo , garrison = Hoeryong, North Korea The 766th Independent Infantry Regiment ( ko, 제766독립보병련대) was an elite light infantry unit of North Korea's Korean People's Army (KPA) that existed briefly during the Korean War. It was headquartered in Hoeryong, North Korea, and was also known as the 766th Unit ( ko, 766부대). Trained extensively ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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