The mounts Kumgang (in Korean, Kumgangsan ), or mountains of diamond (thus called because of the flutter of the mounts to the rising of the Sun), are located at 108 km in the south of Wonsan, in the south-east of the North Korea, in the north of the chain of Montagne S Taebaek.

Culminating with 1  638 m with the mount Birobong, the Kumgang mounts are crowned for the Koreans since millenia.

Denominations

The landscape of these mountains so much distinctively changes from one season to another that those have several names. With the rising of the sun in spring, the tops scintillate in the dew of the morning like diamonds, also in this period, the mountains are called Kumgangsan (the diamond mountain). In summer, when the forests found all their glare and their color, they are called Bongnaesan (the green mountain). In autumn, when the sheets take their colors crimsons and gilded, they are called Pungaksan (the mountain with the sheets of autumn). And in winter, when it does not remain any more that the stones and snow, the mountains are called Gaegolsan (the naked mountain) or Seolbongsan (the snow-covered mountain). The Kumgang mounts, which are in North Korea, symbolize the unification of the country for all the Koreans .

Tourism

The Kumgang mounts constitute today the principal tourist site of the North Korea. The company Hyundai Asan exploits the tourist tours South Korean visitors in the Kumgang mounts since November 1998. In 2005, more than one million South Korean had visited these mountains.

This project explains the personal engagement of Chung Ju-yung, founder of the group Hyundai, originating in this area. In 1998, in a symbolic gesture, it personally led 500 heads of Bœuf S in North Korea while crossing demilitarized zone (DMZ), before negotiating then to sign a tourist contract of exploitation of the area in the name of the group Hyundai.

Reference

External bonds

• Presentation of the Kumgang mounts on the official site North-Korean Naenara

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