Seafood boom! Traveling to Uljin

Seafood boom! Traveling to Uljin

 

 

 

 

A trip to Uljin filled with seafood.

 

The Snow Crab Festival is in held in Hupo Port. It's been three years.

 

Full of flesh snow crab - red crab. It makes mouth water.

 

Skywalker, hug the sea or take a picture of the background of Jukbyeon Heart Rock.

 

Walking the mountain-sea clean valley along Wangpicheon(왕피천) Stream, where a flock of sweet fish comes up in spring.

 

 

 

The crab market in Hupo Port, Uljin, Gyeongsangbuk-do, where the 2023 Uljin Snow Crab and Red Snow Crab Festival will be held. A row of fresh snow crabs with their legs raised above create a spectacular view.

 

 

 

 

Uljin, Gyeongsangbuk-do, is now in the midst of a seafood feast.

 

Uljin snow crabs and red snow crabs (red crabs) that have gained weight are filling the port, and as spring comes, a flock of sweetfish trying to return to their hometown of Uljin Wangpicheon Stream are also specktacular.

 

It's not all about the taste. Skywalks, sky rails, and cable cars that travel on the sea are becoming a style to enjoy Uljin's coastal scenery.

 

 

 

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Now, Uljin, Gyeongsangbuk-do, is crowded with a flock of snow crabs that have gained weight in the sea, and in the Wangpicheon Valley, it is busy with a flock of sweetfish returning home.

In time, Uljin-gun resumed the Snow Crab Festival, which had been closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, for the first time in three years.

The "2023 Uljin Snow Crab and Red Snow Crab Festival" is being held at Wangdolcho Square(왕돌초광장) in Hupo Port, Uljin-gun until the 26th.

 

There is a reason why snow crab festivals are held here.

Uljin Wangdolcho is a representative crab producing area.

Wangdolcho, about 23km east of Hupo Port, is a vast underwater reef twice the size of Yeouido and forms a treasure trove of ecosystems.

Uljin snow crabs are in season from November to May of the following year, but snow crabs with full flesh can be tasted from February.

It is easy to misunderstand that the king crab(대게)'s "dae(대)" is a large ruler, but in fact, it is named because the eight legs resemble a dry "dae" tree(대나무).

 

The best product among snow crabs is Bakdaldaege(박달대게).

It is a top-class snow crab with full flesh like hard kind of birch.

It is said that the auction price is well over 100,000 won.  Because it is so precious that only two or three can be caught a day.

 

If the price of king crabs is burdensome, red crabs are also good.

Red crabs, which have gained weight well, taste as good as snow crabs.

Although it looks similar to snow crabs, it is generally reddish and has a strong salty taste, and many people look for this taste instead of snow crabs.

 

Hupo Port, where the Snow Crab Festival is held, is the largest crab fishing port in Korea, so there are many things to see in the fish market.

At the fish market, a crab auction house that has been caught in the coastal waters since early morning will stand.

The scene of snow crabs lined up on the bottom of the fish market is also unusual, and there is a joy of seeing the lively scene of life from the auctioneer.

Steam of snow crabs rising from restaurants near the fish market stimulates tourists' makes mouth water.

 

 

 

 

 

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Walking on the sea

 

 

 

"등기산 Skywalk," a sea bridge that stretches 57 meters above the sea.The seawater overlooking the transparent tempered glass gives a thrilling feeling.

 

 

 

 

 

There is a "등기산 Skywalk" near Hupo Port, where the snow crab festival is held.

Skywalk is a sea bridge that extends over the sea from Gatbawi Park(갓바위공원) across the suspension bridge of 등기산 Park.

A transparent tempered glass that can withstand 15 tons of weight at a height of 20 meters in the sea is installed.

Walking through the transparent glass, which stretches out to the sea 57m long, makes you feel thrilling.

It feels you are walking on the sea.

It is closed on rainy or windy days. Gatbawi Rock, right next to it, is also a point where you can enjoy the white foam created by the collision of strange rocks rising above the sea and waves.

 

 

 

 

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Jukbyeon Coastal Skyrail

 

 

Jukbyeon Coastal Skyrail installed in the air at a height of 10m along the coastline.

 

 

 

 

If you ride the slow-moving skyrail, you can see the heart-shaped coastal rock, the Jukbyeon drama set (a red-roofed two-story house on the hill)'언덕 위 붉은 지붕의 이층집' where the popular drama "Into the Storm" was filmed, and the Yongwangjeon Hall where Uljin people enshrined the Dragon King of the East Sea.

In particular, Jukbyeon Yongwangjeon Hall is rumored to be a very spiritual place where Uljin shipowners and elders take care of rituals themselves, and it is seen and disappeared in a moment on the monorail.

 

 

 

 

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In Wangpicheon, "Hometown of sweet fish".

 

 

 

Cheongamjeong Valley in Gulguji Village, which is encountered while trekking the ecology of Wangpicheon Stream.

 

 

 

 

Uljin is famous for its wonderful valleys as well as the sea.

Among them, Wangpicheon Stream, the largest ecological landscape conservation area in Korea, is a representative.

 

Wangpicheon Stream (65.9 km) is a river that originates in Subi-myeon, Yeongyang-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do, and flows into the East Sea through Geumgangsong-myeon and Geunnam-myeon, Uljin-gun.

With deep mountains, mysterious cliffs and rocks along the river, 14 species of mammals such as sky squirrels, goats, and otters, 60 species of birds, 23 species of amphibians and reptiles inhabit this place.

Of course, you can also meet sweet fish that leaves for the East Sea and returns.

It was selected as one of the 12 "ecological tourism areas" nationwide by the Ministry of Environment in 2013 because rare animals and plants live there.

 

In particular, Wangpicheon Ecological Trail is also popular as a trakking spot.

As it is an ecological landscape conservation area, it is essential to make a reservation in advance and accompany the guide for the Wangpicheon Ecological Tour.

You can take the same-day course on Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday, and on Friday and Saturday, you can take the same day or two nights.

You can make a reservation through the website.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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