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Just around the corner from Eurwangli Beach and Wangsan Beach, sits Seonnyeo Rock Beach (선녀바위). With a combination of rocks to play on and sand to sun on, it's a great beach to visit.
The beach gets its name from the most prominent rock that is shaped like a fairy. The story is that when naval forces manned a defense station at Yeongjongjin, the commander had a beautiful mistress. Eventually the commander’s love for the mistress started waning and he started keeping his distance from her, which made her very upset. With nothing left to live for, she jumped into the ocean from a rock called Taepyeongam and drowned. No one was there to collect her body, so her body floated on the tide to Yongyudo Island. When the commander heard of the tragedy, he found her body and prepared her for burial. Later, locals started referring to the Taepyeongam Rock as the Seonnyeo, or fairy, rock and the hill nearby as Hogunje, or the commander’s hill. The rock is not labeled and takes some searching. But it's a prominent feature on the beach.
The beach gets its name from the most prominent rock that is shaped like a fairy. The story is that when naval forces manned a defense station at Yeongjongjin, the commander had a beautiful mistress. Eventually the commander’s love for the mistress started waning and he started keeping his distance from her, which made her very upset. With nothing left to live for, she jumped into the ocean from a rock called Taepyeongam and drowned. No one was there to collect her body, so her body floated on the tide to Yongyudo Island. When the commander heard of the tragedy, he found her body and prepared her for burial. Later, locals started referring to the Taepyeongam Rock as the Seonnyeo, or fairy, rock and the hill nearby as Hogunje, or the commander’s hill. The rock is not labeled and takes some searching. But it's a prominent feature on the beach.
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60 Seonnyeobawi-ro, Jung-gu, Incheon, South Korea
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Free