The 3rd Tunnel제3땅굴

At a glance

On September 5, 1974, a North Korean defector named Kim Bu-seong told the South that he had worked as a surveyor on a tunnel under the DMZ. The search turned up nothing for years, until June 10, 1978, when a blast sent water shooting up a test borehole and the third tunnel was found. It is 1,635 m long and about 2 m high and 2 m wide, big enough to move an estimated 30,000 troops an hour, and it lies 12 km from Munsan and 52 km from Seoul. A monorail lets visitors reach the tunnel without walking all the way down, and a DMZ theater on site screens a 3D film about the division and the DMZ's natural environment.

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The 3rd Tunnel · 4 tours & tickets

1. GetYourGuideDMZ 3rd Tunnel tour with suspension bridge optionA DMZ day tour from Seoul to Imjingak, the 3rd Tunnel and Dora Observatory, with an optional suspension bridge stop.Book
2. KlookDMZ one-day tour from SeoulA DMZ day tour from Seoul to Imjingak, the 3rd Infiltration Tunnel and Dora Observatory, plus the Gamaksan or Majang Lake suspension bridge. Bring your passport.Book
3. KKdayDMZ & Third Tunnel half-day tourA half-day DMZ tour from Seoul with the Third Tunnel and Dora Observatory.Book
4. KlookDMZ & JSA historical tourA DMZ tour from Seoul with the 3rd Infiltration Tunnel and stops linked to the Joint Security Area (JSA).Book

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Tips

• 01
  Bring your passport: DMZ tour listings ask for it, and the sites lie inside the civilian control zone.
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  Tours can be called off at short notice for security or weather reasons, so keep the day flexible.

Nearby

Dora ObservatoryThe South's northernmost observatory, where rows of binoculars look across the DMZ to Kaesong's Songaksan and the village of Gijeong-dong.Dorasan StationA station opened in 2002 inside the civilian control zone on the Gyeongui Line, rebuilt in the hope of one day linking the two Koreas by rail.Tongilchon Village'Unification Village', a settlement inside the Civilian Control Line in Paju, close to North Korea, that you can enter only on a booked DMZ tour.Camp GreavesA former US Army camp 2 km south of the DMZ, now a youth hostel and peace-education site with its barracks and officers' quarters kept intact.