Taean County


Taean County is a county in Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea.
Taean County is most famous for Taean Haean National Park, known for its clear seas, unpolluted soils, coastal flora, tidal flats, coasts, and white sand. It includes thirty different beaches; one of these, Mallipo Beach, is considered one of the three most beautiful in Korea and is over three kilometers long. This beach is also the site of the 2007 Korea oil spill.
The Korean government designated Taean Haean National Park in 1978. It consists of of land. There are about 130 islands in the park, and 250 species of flora thrive there.
in Sowon-myeon, founded in 1979 by naturalized US-expatriate Min Byung Gal, is a 64ha private botanical garden housing more than 6900 different species of plants collected from more than 60 countries.
The Sinduri beach in Taean is home to the Duung wetland, a sand dune wetland and protected area that is also designated a National Treasure of South Korea.
The Korean boy band Big Bang based their song, "붉은노을, in honor of the caveman. The title track from their 2nd full-length Korean album, Sunset Glow, a remake of Lee Moon Sae's Red Sunset. Their Music Video for Sunset Glow is spreading the message to visit Tae-an beaches again after the 2007 Korea oil spill where it had previously struck the once populated tourist attraction a year ago, leaving it deserted and neglected.

Economy

has its headquarters in Taean.

Military

The test site for a new Hyunmoo-type ballistic missile was publicly reported as being near Taean.

Festival

Taean holds the World Tulip Festival for a month from mid-April. The Taean World Tulip Festival in 2017 is proud of its revival as one of the world's top five tulip festivals following the WTS in 2015. Visitors can see the wide sea and sand beaches and millions of tulips. There are various events, including traditional folk experience, magic experience, soap bubble drop experience, and aroma experience.

Twin towns – sister cities

Taean is twinned with:

Domestic