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Mount Myohyang

The Mt. Myohyang Biosphere Reserve covers the mountain areas of Myohyang Mountain Range and Jokyuryong Mountain Range on the left bank of River Chongchon. The Myohyang Mountains debouch from Mt. Rangrim and stretch northeastward and southwestward, sprawling on the border of South Phyongan Province and link Mt. Myohyang Piro Peak (1,909m) almost to Mt. Sobak (2014m above sea level).

There is no inhabitant living within the core area. 18,400 peoples are living in buffer zone while 73,800 in transition area.

Economic activities are mainly conducted in buffer zone and the transition area of the proposed Biosphere Reserve.

Tourism is the main activity in buffer zone while the agriculture is the main economic activity in transition area. The main crops are rice, maize, vegetables and fruits. There is no ethnic group or indigenous people living in orne are the proposed biosphere reserve other than Korean.

Mt.Myohyang has the International Friendship Exhibition, the grand monumental edifice and the cultural heritages including Pohyon Temple, which was built in 1042.

From ancient times, Mt. Myohyang has been known as asacred and famous mountain, which had an ancestral legend of King Tangun, the progenitor of the Korean nationand one of the eight beauty spots in Korea. Read more about this reserve on the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve website.