Cheongdo Stone Ice Storage

Cheongdo Stone Ice Storage is one of the rare pre-modern Joseon-era ice storage chambers in Korea, a stone-vaulted underground room built in 1713 to keep ice harvested from a local stream through the summer for royal court delivery and local administrative use. The chamber is half-buried, with thick stone walls and a deeply pitched stone-tile roof above ground, and was technically advanced enough to keep ice solid through the hot Korean summer until 19th-century mechanical refrigeration arrived. Designated a National Treasure-class historical structure. Allow about thirty minutes including the small interpretive panel. Pair with Cheongdo Wine Cave (a tunnel-aged persimmon-wine cellar) and the Cheongdo bullfighting arena nearby.