[2025 Goseong-gun Attraction] Travel Guide for Hwajinpo Lake (Updated May)

Huajinpo is famous all over the world as the filming location of the TV series "Blue Life and Death". There are dense pine forests and beautiful lakes on the shore. During the Japanese colonial period, it used to be a concentration of villas for foreigners. After liberation, it was used as the villa of former President Kim Il Sung and Syngman Rhee. Especially in winter, Huajinpu welcomes dozens of winter migratory birds, such as red swans, black swans and old eagles, and the scenery is particularly beautiful. Hwajinpo is a large natural lake (lagoon) on the east coast, and its name comes from the blooming begonia flowers by the lake. In the wide reed pond with a circumference of 16 kilometers, migratory birds and swans fly in every autumn, which is a habitat for migratory birds. Around Hwajinpo Lake, there are relics from the prehistoric period, and about 10 dolmens are scattered. Two villas were built here, and the two villas stood opposite each other with the lake as the center, and there are still ruins. Later, the two places were transformed into the Hwajinpo Historical Memorial Hall and became a famous tourist spot. Now it has been renamed the Security Exhibition Hall and is open to ordinary tourists. In order to let people understand the life of these characters at that time, the furnishings in the villa are exactly the same as at that time. There is also a beautiful lake view from the villa.