Bugok Hot Spring Gyeongnam

Bugok Hot Spring Gyeongnam is located in Bugok-eup in Changnyeong County, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, in the gentle hills of the Nakdong River basin — a region of rice paddies, peach orchards, and traditional villages representing the agricultural heartland of the Gyeongnam plains between the coastal cities of Busan and Masan. The calcic thermal waters of Bugok are among South Korea's most celebrated hot springs, emerging at 78°C — among the highest natural temperatures in Korea — from the deep metamorphic basement geology of the southern Korean peninsula, and have been used for over 1,400 years according to historical records citing their first use during the Silla Kingdom period. Bugok's development as one of Korea's premier domestic hot spring resorts has made it a destination offering comprehensive bathing facilities, wellness hotels, and the full range of Korean jjimjilbang spa culture, attracting millions of domestic visitors annually to experience some of the hottest and most mineralogically distinctive thermal waters on the Korean peninsula.