Experts in creating innovation: Ancient Mysterious Place Seongryugul(Cave)

1 Introduction to Seongryugul(Cave)

Seongryugul is a limestone cave located in Gusan-ri, Geunnam-myeon, Uljin-gun, Gyeongbuk. It is near the Bulyeongsa Valley and is approximately 915m long (including the underwater cave section).

The cave is made of limestone and is colored in shades of red, gray, and white.

There are nine squares and three pools of water 4-5m deep inside the cave, and various cave formations such as stalactites that look like icicles, stalagmites that protrude from the ground, and stone columns formed by stalactites and stalagmites meeting to form pillars are evenly distributed.

Seongryugul originally meant a place where immortals leisurely played, and you can see the beautiful and diverse formations that can be seen in limestone caves, such as splendid stalactites, stalagmites, and stone columns, like an underground palace.

It meets the mineral spring that returns to Bulyeong Valley, forms Wangpicheon, and enters the East Sea where Mangyangjeong is located.

It is called Seongryugul, meaning 'where the Buddha stayed'.

This place is also called 'Underground Geumgang' because the strange limestone rocks here look like Geumgangsan.

It is estimated that the cave has 250 million years of age, and it is about 870m long from north to south.

The largest square is 18m wide, 25m long, and 40m high. The water depth is usually 4-20m, and the temperature is 15-17℃, which hardly changes throughout the year.

It was designated as Natural Monument No. 155 in 1963.