- Address
- Jumunjin-eup, Gangneung-si, Gangwon
- Getting there
- KTX from Seoul to Gangneung (about 2 hours), then bus 300/302 toward Jumunjin. The filming spot is at Yeongjin Beach, just south of Jumunjin harbour — set navigation to 영진해변, not the harbour.
- Hours
- Always open
- Admission
- Free
Jumunjin Breakwater
Free to visitFree and always open — but at weekends you will queue, and there is a way around that.
A plain fishing-harbor breakwater on the Gangneung coast that Goblin turned into one of Korea's most-visited drama pilgrimage spots — complete with photo stand and prop rentals.
What Korean visitors report
🔎 Last checked · August 2026Korean-language visitor reports carry details that English guides do not — what is still standing, what closed, and what the walk from the car park is actually like. We read them and summarise the facts here.
- It is Yeongjin Beach, not Jumunjin harbour
- Almost every English guide calls this the Jumunjin breakwater, and that will get you to the wrong place. The scene was shot at Yeongjin Beach, a little south of the harbour. Korean navigation apps want 영진해변.
- There are three breakwaters — the middle one is the one
- Arrive and you will see three. Korean visitors are consistent that the centre breakwater is the actual filming location.
- The queue is avoidable
- This is the tip worth the whole page. At weekends the middle breakwater has a line of people waiting to reproduce the scene. Immediately beside it is another breakwater of the same shape, pointing the same way at the same sea, with no queue at all. Photographed from the right angle the result is indistinguishable, and several Korean visitors specifically recommend not bothering with the long side.
- The props are lent out free
- You do not need to bring a bouquet. Cafés at the beach — the gelato shop by the sand among them — lend out the buckwheat flowers and the red scarf for nothing, exactly because visitors keep coming to restage the scene.
- Parking is the actual difficulty
- Repeated reports of circling for a space at busy times. Korean visitors start looking for parking before they arrive rather than driving straight to the beach.
Based on: Korean visitor reports from 2025–2026 describing the beach layout, queueing and prop rental
Sources checked:
- Korean visitor reports, 2025–2026 — beach layout, queue, prop rental, parkingVisitor report
Dramas filmed at Jumunjin Breakwater
Goblin
Where Ji Eun-tak summons the Goblin by the sea with a bouquet of buckwheat flowers — the show's most recreated shot.
The Glory
The Sodol breakwater with its red lighthouse, on the harbor's north side, hosts the drama's quiet final-act shoreline scenes.
Visiting tips
A photo stand on the breakwater marks the exact camera framing, and nearby shops rent the bouquet and red scarf so you can match the scene shot-for-shot. Weekday mornings have the shortest queue; summer weekends can mean a real wait.
K-pop crossover: the famous BTS You Never Walk Alone bus-stop photo spot stands on Hyangho Beach, a short taxi ride north — a reconstructed bus stop kept there for fans. Doing both in one stop is standard practice.
What’s nearby
Jumunjin’s fish market at the harbor is one of the east coast’s best cheap-sashimi stops. Gangneung city (20 minutes south) adds Gyeongpo Beach and the Chodang soft-tofu village — together they make the classic Gangwon coast day trip from Seoul by KTX.