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[Gunsan Spa]

  • Gunsan Spa, whose water of good quality is springing from Geumgang Estuary, one of the largest streams in the southern part of the central district, opened in May, 2002. The water is gushing out from the 900 meter deep base rock, which is the deepest in the country. Its temperature is 31.4 degrees and it has the supreme mild alkaline natrium sulphate.
    The water need not any purifier for softening water because it has the high temperature and a lot of main ingredients, which is one-hundred percent natural spring water without any chemicals.
    It consists of natrium sulphate and calcium sulphate, which contains natrium and calcium over 1700mg/liter and sulphate good for human body over 1000mg/liter.
    The sweating bathroom was constructed by crossing a 1.3m thick, 7m high, 6.3m caliber cylinder-shaped dome with yellow earth and chalcopurite of about 300 ton and covering the ground with one meter thick yellow earth, which is rarely cracked by superheat and has the high radiation of far infrared ray.
    It has the BIO clean system which provides and regenerates oxygen to the yellow earth and the chalcopurite with circulated air and to the air shut in the room and sends heat in every direction to eddy the heat of 700 degrees in the upper region, 500 degrees in the middle, and the 90-100 degrees in the lower after burning pine trees, the only fuel for it, on the central ground for about three hours.
  • Inside facilities
    A sweating room covering 100 pyong in Gunsan Spa, a locker room for ladies, a locker room for men, sleeping room, bath room, restaurant, lounge
    Open all day and night .
 
  888 Jochon-dong, Gunsan-si, Jeollabuk-do, Republic of Korea Tel. 88-063-450-4000
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