VISIT JEJU

The Historic Site of Samyang-dong in Jeju is the remains of a village in a coastal flat land that used to exist between the Bronze Age and the early Iron Age. These remains show the culture of the Korean Peninsula during the late Bronze Age and were recognized as important research materials that provided hints of Songguk-ri pattern dwelling culture during A.D. 500 - 100.

The site was designated as Historic Site 416 on November 15th, 1999. Excavation investigations were carried out three times from 1997 to 1999 when it was discovered that Samyang-dong, Jeju-si, remains contained numbers of ancient earthenware and dwellings from the Bronze Age, proving the existence of a huge community, during the Process of Land Readjustment Projects in 1996.

As a result, the round subterranean houses, which formed the largest community in the Jeju Island area, were identified as the Songguk-ri dugout site (an oval work hole was dug within the round settlement and smaller holes for columns were dug at two ends of the work hole) built during the late Bronze Age.