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MoonArisa
Joined: 13 Jan 2011
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 Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 11:04 am Post subject: Caving/Spelunking in Korea? |
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Following the interesting link on another post (regarding rock climbing); does anyone know where one could find information on spelunking in Korea?
I tried doing a google search but couldn't come up with anything really substantive.
Thank you in advance! |
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Troglodyte
Joined: 06 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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| I've been caving around Taebaek and Sokcho. Near Sokcho there are a lot of organised day tours. Around Taebeak there are some popular caves that the hikers like to visit. |
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm sure with Korea's topography there are plenty of places to do it...my primary concern would be with safety and standards, though. |
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MoonArisa
Joined: 13 Jan 2011
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 4:36 am Post subject: |
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| Troglodyte wrote: |
| I've been caving around Taebaek and Sokcho. Near Sokcho there are a lot of organised day tours. Around Taebeak there are some popular caves that the hikers like to visit. |
Nice, thank you for the note.
I'll have to see if I can find more information; but now that I at least have areas it's helpful!
| seoulsucker wrote: |
| I'm sure with Korea's topography there are plenty of places to do it...my primary concern would be with safety and standards, though. |
I had assumed (and hoped) so as well.
Would their safety standards be so low? |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 5:04 am Post subject: |
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| Troglodyte wrote: |
| Near Sokcho there are a lot of organised day tours. |
Caves near Sokcho? Maybe you meant to say Samcheok. |
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Troglodyte
Joined: 06 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 7:17 am Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
| Troglodyte wrote: |
| Near Sokcho there are a lot of organised day tours. |
Caves near Sokcho? Maybe you meant to say Samcheok. |
There are a lot of caves near Samcheok. That's possibly where I was thinking of. Now that I look at the map though I see that it's quite a ways down the coast from Sokcho. I did visit at least one cave at Seorak-san, which IS very close to Sokcho. The others may have been near Samcheok though and I just didn't pay attention to the distance.
Anyway, both of these locations (and Taebaek) are in Gangwon-do. They appear on the tourist map so you could probably get more information from calling the Gangwon provincial office.
http://en.gangwon.to/page/index.html
Here's Samcheok
http://eng.samcheok.go.kr/main/ |
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