{"id":38810,"date":"2026-06-16T19:48:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=38810"},"modified":"2026-06-16T19:48:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:48:22","slug":"day-04-jeju-southwest-jeju-sanyang-keunkot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2026\/06\/16\/day-04-jeju-southwest-jeju-sanyang-keunkot\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 04 @ Jeju &#8211; Southwest Jeju &#8211; Sanyang Keunkot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While researching earlier this year on places to visit in Jeju, I read about a privately owned park situated inside a forest that was popular among locals as a place to take fun photos, so we decided to include that in our tour plan. <strong>Sanyang Keunkot<\/strong> is located on the western side of Jeju too, and we went by to check out this fairy-tale-themed forest after lunch. Admission fees are a little on the hefty side, but the walk through the forest was serene and peaceful, with the overhead trees shielding us from the afternoon sun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/blog-2026-jeju-day-04-20260616_1152050.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38811\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/blog-2026-jeju-day-04-20260616_1152050.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/blog-2026-jeju-day-04-20260616_1152050.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/blog-2026-jeju-day-04-20260616_1152050-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/blog-2026-jeju-day-04-20260616_1152050-768x512.jpg 768w, 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src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/blog-2026-jeju-day-04-20260616_1205140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/blog-2026-jeju-day-04-20260616_1205140.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/blog-2026-jeju-day-04-20260616_1205140-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/blog-2026-jeju-day-04-20260616_1205140-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/blog-2026-jeju-day-04-20260616_1205140-731x488.jpg 731w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/blog-2026-jeju-day-04-20260616_1205140-240x160.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/blog-2026-jeju-day-04-20260616_120527.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38818\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/blog-2026-jeju-day-04-20260616_120527.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/blog-2026-jeju-day-04-20260616_120527.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/blog-2026-jeju-day-04-20260616_120527-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/blog-2026-jeju-day-04-20260616_120527-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/blog-2026-jeju-day-04-20260616_120527-731x488.jpg 731w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/blog-2026-jeju-day-04-20260616_120527-240x160.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a 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https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/blog-2026-jeju-day-04-20260616_121156-240x160.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/blog-2026-jeju-day-04-20260616_121513.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38821\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/blog-2026-jeju-day-04-20260616_121513.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/blog-2026-jeju-day-04-20260616_121513.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/blog-2026-jeju-day-04-20260616_121513-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/blog-2026-jeju-day-04-20260616_121513-240x320.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" 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240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are numerous exhibits along the park trail to take fun pictures, and also a small enclosed area where dozens of very tame rabbits roam, for visitors to interact with and feed. The forest park itself isn&#8217;t small, and looking at the park map and the couple of possible trails, one could easily spend at least half a day if you intend to walk every trail. We didn&#8217;t have that much time to spend, so with just an hour available, managed to perhaps cover a third of the main trail before we had to turn around and head back.<\/p>\n<p>This is a lovely park, and largely off the list for most large tour groups. Highly recommended!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While researching earlier this year on places to visit in Jeju, I read about a privately owned park situated inside a forest that was popular among locals as a place to take fun photos, so we decided to include that<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2026\/06\/16\/day-04-jeju-southwest-jeju-sanyang-keunkot\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Day 04 @ Jeju &#8211; Southwest Jeju &#8211; Sanyang Keunkot<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[690],"class_list":["post-38810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traveling","tag-jeju-2026","wpcat-17-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/blog-2026-jeju-day-04-20260616_120206.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38824,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38810\/revisions\/38824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}