Muuido, also known as Muui Island, is an island in

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

. It is a small island located south of Yongyu Island, which was joined with

Yeongjong Island Yeongjong Island is an island off the west coast of the city of Incheon, South Korea, which contains Incheon International Airport as well as small villages, farms, and beaches. The previously separate Yongyu, Sammok, and Sinbul Islands have b ...

when

Incheon International Airport Incheon International Airport (IIA; ) (sometimes referred to as Seoul–Incheon International Airport) is the largest airport in South Korea. It is the primary airport serving the Seoul Capital Area and one of the largest and busiest airports ...

was built. Muui Island measures long and wide. The island is visible from the airport. Muui Island is served by a daily ferry from

Incheon Incheon (; ; or Inch'ŏn; literally "kind river"), formerly Jemulpo or Chemulp'o (제물포) until the period after 1910, officially the Incheon Metropolitan City (인천광역시, 仁川廣域市), is a city located in northwestern South Kore ...

ferry terminal on the mainland, as well as by a frequent car ferry which crosses the narrow channel separating the island from Yongyu Island. Buses run from the airport and the

Incheon Airport Maglev The Incheon Airport Maglev is a Maglev (transport), maglev line in South Korea opened on 3 February 2016. It is the world's second commercially operating unmanned urban maglev line after Japan's Linimo. The trains are lighter, cutting construc ...

will also provide service to nearby

Yongyu station Yongyu station () is a station of the Incheon Airport Maglev in Unseo-dong, Jung District, Incheon, South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean ...

. With the opening of Muui Bridge between Muui and Yeongjong, ferry service to the island has been reduced. The island's name, "Muui", means "dancer's dress" in Korean. It is a beautiful spot popular with locals and expat tourists, who like to visit the two main beaches of the island, Silmi Beach and Hanagae Beach. Muuido is mentioned in Eugene Clark's Korean War narrative ''The Secrets of Incheon''.

Hanagae

Hanagae is about a kilometer long and has a vast tidal flat. It has small cabanas on the beach for overnight lodging, and an assortment of local restaurants and hotels. There are many shellfish on the shores of the island. At Hanagae Beach, people can catch

crabs Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" (abdomen) ( el, βραχύς , translit=brachys = short, / = tail), usually hidden entirely under the thorax. They live in all the ...

clams Clam is a common name for several kinds of bivalve molluscs. The word is often applied only to those that are edible and live as infauna, spending most of their lives halfway buried in the sand of the seafloor or riverbeds. Clams have two shel ...

snails A snail is, in loose terms, a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name ''snail'' is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gastrop ...

, surf clams, and horned turbans. Hanagae has an outdoor stage and has hosted festivals, including the punk festival IT'S A FEST and Muuido Summer Sea Dance Festival.

Silmido

Silmi Island is a smaller uninhabited island located off the NW shore of Muui Island. It is famously the former training site for

Unit 684 209th Detachment, 2325th Group ( ko, 2325부대 209파견대), commonly known as Unit 684 (684부대), was a black operations unit of the Republic of Korea Air Force formed to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Il-sung in 1968, in retaliation fo ...

, as depicted in the film ''

Silmido Silmido (Silmi Island) is an uninhabited island in the Yellow Sea, off the west coast of South Korea. It has an area of about 0.25 km2. It lies within the borders of Incheon metropolitan city, and is about 5 kilometres southwest of Incheon ...

''.

External links

GSC.gov - Official GSC Organizational Site *
Muuido homepage

Korea Tourism Official Site

Islands in the area

Oi-do Island

References

Islands of Incheon Islands of the Yellow Sea {{SouthKorea-geo-stub