Daegeumgul
Useful Information
History
| | |
| 2000 | cave discovered. |
| 05-JUN-2007 | opened to the public. |
Description
Daegeumgul (Transverse Flute Cave) is the youngest Korean show cave,
discovered in 2000 and developed to open in 2007.
Modern cave development tries to protect the cave as much as possible.
As a result this cave is visited on a monorail system with 42 seats, which
results in a maximum number of 720 visitors daily.
Visitors have to pre book online, unfortunately the published this fact without
giving the bookung url.
Daegeumgul is named after the Daegeum, a transverse flute which is a
traditional Korean instrument.
It shows a wealth of speleothems including stalactites, stalagmites, cave coral,
and cave pearls.
See also
Karst cave.
