This web site has been prepared to provide you with detailed informations on tourism, culture, sport, transportation and local specialties of Taebaek City.

Taebaek City had been a center of the coal industry, and as such played a pivotal role in Korea's industrial development until the late 1980s. Today Taebaek is striving to be reborn as a highland Leisure Sports city, based on its abundant tourist resources and the kindness of its citizens.

We earnestly hope that this newly opened HOMEpage will help you to find all the information you need on Taebaek in order to further understand our city's tourism culture. To this end, we will do our utmost to deliver more detailed information on tourism and culture to you in a speedy manner.

Yeon-Sik Kim, Mayor of Taebaek City