Muuido (), also known as Muui Island, is an island in

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, South Korea. It is a small island located south of Yongyu Island, which was joined with Yeongjong Island through land reclamation when

Incheon International Airport Incheon International Airport is the main international airport serving Seoul, the capital of South Korea. It is also one of the largest and busiest airports in the world. This airport opened for business on 29 March 2001, to replace the old ...

was built.

Description

Muuido has an area of and a coastline length of . From north to south, its length is about , and from east to west about . Muuido is served by a daily ferry from

ferry terminal on the mainland, as well as by a frequent car ferry which crosses the narrow channel separating the island from Yongyu Island. Buses run from the airport and the Incheon Airport Maglev will also provide service to nearby Yongyu station. With the opening of Muui Bridge between Muui and Yeongjong, ferry service to the island has been reduced. Silmido Beach is located on the northwest of the island.

Hanagae Beach

Hanagae Beach is located on the west coast of the island. It is about a kilometer long and has a vast tidal flat. It has small cabanas on the beach for overnight lodging, and an assortment of local restaurants and hotels. There are many shellfish on the shores of the island. At Hanagae Beach, people can catch

crabs Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura (meaning "short tailed" in Greek), which typically have a very short projecting tail-like abdomen, usually hidden entirely under the thorax. Their exoskeleton is often thickened and ha ...

clams Clam is a common name for several kinds of bivalve mollusc. The word is often applied only to those that are deemed edible and live as infauna, spending most of their lives halfway buried in the sand of the sea floor or riverbeds. Clams h ...

snails A snail is a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name ''snail'' is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gas ...

, surf clams, and horned turbans. Hanagae has an outdoor stage and has hosted festivals, including the punk festival IT'S A FEST and Muuido Summer Sea Dance Festival.

Silmido

Silmi Island is a smaller uninhabited island located off the NW shore of Muuido. It is famously the former training site for Unit 684, as depicted in the film '' Silmido''.

References

External links

GSC.gov - Official GSC Organizational Site *
Muuido homepage

Korea Tourism Official Site

Islands in the area

Oi-do Island
Islands of Incheon Islands of the Yellow Sea {{Incheon-geo-stub