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Pohang

Pohang is the largest city in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, with a population of 499,363 as of 2022, bordering the East Sea to the east, Yeongcheon to the west, Gyeongju to the south, and Cheongsong and Yeongdeok County to the north.

Type CityPopulation 499,363

Why go

  • City in North Gyeongsang, South Korea.
  • Served by Pohang Airport (G-815/K-3) (KPO).

History

Pohang is the largest city in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, with a population of 499,363 as of 2022, bordering the East Sea to the east, Yeongcheon to the west, Gyeongju to the south, and Cheongsong and Yeongdeok County to the north.

Restaurants & places to go

Coffee Shop, Cafe ยท ๊ณ ํ””์งˆใ…ฃ๋Œ€์šฉ๋Ÿ‰ ์ปคํ”ผ ์ปดํฌ์ฆˆ์ปคํ”ผ ํฌํ•ญ ๋‘์‚ฐ์œ„๋ธŒ์  ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค^^ Opening hours: Mo-Su 08:00-22:00 Features: takeaway, air conditioning ยท 8 ์ƒˆ์ฒœ๋…„๋Œ€๋กœ1249๋ฒˆ๊ธธ, ํฌํ•ญ์‹œ, 37585 ยท composecoffee.com
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Chicken, Fast Food ยท ๋‘ ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ ์น˜ํ‚จ์˜ ์›์กฐ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ! ๊ฐ„์žฅ์น˜ํ‚จ์œผ๋กœ ๋” ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ ํ˜ธ์‹์ด๋‘๋งˆ๋ฆฌ์น˜ํ‚จ! ๋งˆ๋Š˜ ํ‹ฐํ‚จ์˜ ๋ํŒ์™•! ๋‹ฌ์ฝ˜ํ•œ ํŠน์ œ์†Œ์Šค์— ๋ˆˆ๊ฝƒ๋งˆ๋Š˜์ด ์‚ฌ๋ฅด๋ฅด~~ ์ƒˆ๋กœ ๋‚˜์˜จ ''ํ˜ธ์‹์ด ์Šค์œ—์ธ ๊ฐˆ๋ฆญ์น˜ํ‚จ''์„ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•ด ๋ณด์„ธ์š”!! ์น˜ํ‚จ์ด ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ๋‹ค ์น˜๋ฉด, ๋ญ”๊ฐ€ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์น˜ํ‚จโ€ฆ ยท 9922.co.kr
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Cafe ยท ์• ๋‹ˆ์‹œ๋ž€ ์ผ๋ณธ ๊ณ ์œ ์–ด๋กœ ์ธ์—ฐ ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋œป์ด๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ ์ข‹์€ ์ธ์—ฐ์œผ๋กœ ๋™๊ฒฝ์—์„œ ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๋™๊ฒฝ์—์„œ ์˜จ ์ผ๋ณธ ์žฅ์ธ์ด ๋กœ์ŠคํŒ…๊ณผ ํ•ธ๋“œ๋“œ๋ฆฝ ์ˆ˜์ œ ์ผ€์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค Opening hours: Mo-Su 12:00-22:00 Features: outdoor seating, airโ€ฆ ยท ameblo.jp
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Chicken, Restaurant ยท Opening hours: 17:00-24:00 ยท 5 ์ด์ธ๋กœ77๋ฒˆ๊ธธ, ํฌํ•ญ์‹œ, 37566 ยท bbq.co.kr
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Pasta, Restaurant ยท Opening hours: Mo-Fr 12:00-00:00 ยท 6-8 ์ƒˆ์ฒœ๋…„๋Œ€๋กœ1259๋ฒˆ๊ธธ, ํฌํ•ญ์‹œ, 37585 ยท blog.naver.com
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Seafood, Restaurant ยท Opening hours: PH,Mo-Su 09:00-24:00 Features: takeaway, step-free access, air conditioning ยท 9 ์ฃฝ๋„๋กœ40๋ฒˆ๊ธธ, ํฌํ•ญ์‹œ, 37745 ยท restaurant-76126.business.site
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Burger, Fast Food ยท Features: takeaway ยท 68 ์ฒœ๋งˆ๋กœ, ํฌํ•ญ์‹œ, 37589 ยท lotteria.com
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Burger, Fast Food ยท Features: takeaway ยท mcdonalds.co.kr
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Airports

Pohang Airport (G-815/K-3) (KPO) 7.8 km to the centre
Pohang, 47, KR โ€” Indoor waiting areas, but some gates board by bus or on foot across the apron โ€” plan for the weather on the day. โœˆ 2 airlines (Asiana Airlines, Korean Air) ยท direct flights to 2 destinations incl. Seoul, Cheju (OpenFlights route data).
โœˆ Airlines & flight paths โ€” 2 airlines, 2 direct destinations
  • Asiana Airlines OZ (A320) ยท 2 routes: Cheju, Seoul
  • Korean Air KE (737-800) ยท 1 route: Seoul

Routes and aircraft from OpenFlights (open data; a point-in-time snapshot). * = codeshare. Linked destinations open their own guidebook. Flight numbers are not in the open data โ€” they come from the airline or a paid schedule feed.

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Yeongdeok Educational Airstrip 60 km to the centre
Yeongdeok-Gun (Yeongdeok County), 47, KR
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Getting there by ferry

ํฌํ•ญํฌ๋ฃจ์ฆˆ
Ferry terminal ยท 3.2 km from the centre
Outdoor
Pohang Passengership terminal
Ferry terminal ยท 4.8 km from the centre
Outdoor
์šธ๋ฆ‰ํฌ๋ฃจ์ฆˆ ์Šน์„ ์žฅ
Ferry terminal ยท 12 km from the centre
Outdoor
ํฌํ•ญ์šดํ•˜ ํŽ˜๋ฆฌ
Ferry route
Outdoor
Pohang - Ulleung
Ferry route
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Pohang (Yeongil Bay New Port) - Ulleung (Sadong)
Ferry route ยท ์šธ๋ฆ‰ํฌ๋ฃจ์ฆˆ
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Where things are

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When to go

Tourist season
May โ€“ September

The warmer, longer-day half of the year is the safest bet for a first visit.

Shoulder season
April, October

Cooler and quieter, with fewer visitors and better value.

Worth avoiding
Deep winter

Short days and the coldest weather โ€” check local conditions before travelling.

Getting there & around

Getting there. The nearest airport on record is Pohang Airport (G-815/K-3) (KPO); 1 other airport serves the wider area. Check rail and road links from the tourism sources below. By air: KPO has direct flights to 2 destinations on 2 airlines (incl. Seoul, Cheju). By water: 3 ferry terminals within 20 km (nearest: ํฌํ•ญํฌ๋ฃจ์ฆˆ, 3.2 km); routes include ํฌํ•ญ์šดํ•˜ ํŽ˜๋ฆฌ, Pohang - Ulleung, Pohang (Yeongil Bay New Port) - Ulleung (Sadong).

Getting around. Use the map above to orient yourself; nearby hotels, attractions and places to eat are listed from the live Ultimate data for Pohang. Local transit details will be added as the guide is expanded.

Trains & rail

National rail

Coaches & shuttles

Intercity coach
Intercity coach