Dongducheon

Dongducheon is a city of 95,000 people (2019) in Gyeonggi province, South Korea.

Understand
Dongducheon is a satellite city lying to the north of Seoul, within 40 km of its metropolitan area. It is adjacent to Pocheon to the northeast, Yangju to the west and south, and Yeoncheon County to the northwest. It consists of eight dongs (neighborhoods).

The city is strategically important for the defense of the Korean capital. It belongs to a military protection zone and has developed as a base village that grew rapidly since the Korean War. The main camps of the United States Second Infantry Division are in the city, and the division command is at Uijeongbu.

The Dongducheon area is where you can climb a mountain at any point because the entire city is surrounded by mountain ridges. The representative Soyosan mountain is good for hiking because the hiking trails are well maintained. As forests occupy most of them, you can find many valleys everywhere, and Tapdong Valley is considered one of the most beautiful vacation spots in all four seasons.

Climate
The city is characterized by a continental climate in the north and a temperate climate in the south with a large annual temperature difference, and especially in winter, the northwest seasonal wind is blowing, indicating fairly low temperature relative to its latitude. The average annual temperature is around 12°C, the average temperature in January is -2.4°C, and the average temperature in August is 25.4°C, with an annual temperature difference of more than 38°C. The precipitation is 1,028.1mm, the average annual relative humidity is 69.0%, and the sunshine time is 2,563.3 hours.

Get in
If you want to get in to the Dongducheon from the capital area, you must first go to Seoul by subway.

By subway
 * Take Subway Line 1 and get off at either one of the following stations:

Get around
Most buses in line No. 1 run once a day, so if you want to board, you must check in advance through Daeyang Transport or Gyeonggi Bus Information App.

Also, you can use Gyeonggi bus information service to check real-time bus service.

See

 * Soyosan.jpg

Do
Festival

Go next
You can go to Pocheon-si, Yangju-si or Yeoncheon-gun.