Our own visit (Chuseok holiday, September 2026), not sponsored. Menu prices come from the menu board on site; address, hours, phone and parking from Naver Place (checked October 6, 2026); the quarry's history from a Munhwa Ilbo article of June 18, 2026. The character illustrations are GPT-generated images.
Earth Under Park, Iksan — A Café Overlooking a Quarry Through Glass Walls, Where Excavators Still Dig Stone Below (Chuseok Holiday)
Our Iksan quarry café review 🪨
On an afternoon
during the Chuseok holiday
(Korea’s autumn harvest festival),
we stopped by Earth Under Park
in Hwangdeung, Iksan.
The quarry straight ahead, through the glass wall
Hwangdeung-myeon, Iksan
⏰ Daily 10:00–20:00
Last order 19:00
💰 Americano 6,000 won
Hwangdeung sweet potato latte 7,500 won
🅿 Free parking lot
(2 Hwangdeung 10-gil)
📞 0507-1302-8490
☔ A line of umbrellas, even on a rainy holiday
It’s a place famous for its quarry.
It was drizzling a little,
but from the entrance on
there was a line of umbrellas.
Maybe because it was Chuseok,
it was really crowded.
EARTH UNDER PARK IKSAN on the entrance wall, people walking in under umbrellas
⛰ A quarry cut down from a whole mountain
This is a quarry where a company called
Hwangdeung Sanup (황등산업)
cuts into a rocky mountain
to supply stone.
They’ve cut so far down into the mountain
that the sight itself became an attraction,
and now it’s a tourist spot.
People at the glass railing, looking down into the quarry
🚜 Still being quarried
The amazing part
is that they’re still digging today.
Look down at the bottom
and you’ll see excavators,
still digging out stone
to be shipped out.
Two excavators working at the bottom of the quarry
through the glass to the bottom
The excavators are still
digging out stone!
According to a Munhwa Ilbo article (June 2026),
this quarry, Hwangdeung Seoksan,
was first developed in 1858,
and stone from here
went into the stone pillars of the Blue House guest house,
the National Assembly building,
the Supreme Court building and more.
Turn your head to the right
and you’ll see apartments and the town
right up against the quarry.
Apartments and the town next to the quarry
☕ Packed inside and out
One of the glass walls
has the words
EARTH CAFE AND LOUNGE
on it, and outside,
a terrace leads onto a lawn.
The terrace — EARTH CAFE AND LOUNGE on the glass
The lawn is planted
with palm trees.
The lawn with its palm trees
Inside,
the wooden truss ceiling
is built in triangles,
and a screen on the central pillar
plays footage of the quarry.
The café was
really crowded.
The triangular truss ceiling and the pillar screen showing quarry footage
At the counter there were drip-bag coffees,
stone cubes carved with the logo,
and travel booklets
about Hwangdeung, Iksan.
The CAFE AND LOUNGE counter — drip bags, stone cubes, Hwangdeung booklets
🍦 Our tray
They sell coffee, ice cream
and all kinds of baked goods.
We picked an iced coffee,
a café latte with heart latte art,
two cups of soft-serve ice cream
and two baked treats.
Our tray — iced coffee, café latte, two cups of ice cream, baked treats
Going by the menu board,
the baked treats were a pound cake
and a butter bar.
We cut them into small pieces.
Pound cake and butter bar, cut into small pieces
There was a stone cube
carved with the logo
on our table, too.
A stone cube carved with the EARTH UNDER PARK IKSAN logo
📋 Menu & prices
The menu board at the entrance
Batch brew / Americano 6,000 won
Café latte 6,500 won
Vanilla latte 7,000 won
Ice cream latte (iced only) 8,000 won
Hwangdeung sweet potato latte 7,500 won
(the signature drink named by the Korea Tourism Organization)
Ice cream 5,000 won
Baked goods 2,500–3,500 won
(canelé, scone, butter bar, pound cake, financier)
(From the menu board on site —
the same as the prices on Naver Place)
🅿 Parking
According to Naver Place,
the parking lot is at 2 Hwangdeung 10-gil,
and on weekends you can also park
at the Hwangdeung-myeon community service center.
👍 Who this is for
✔ Anyone who wants to see
quarry cliffs through glass walls
✔ Anyone curious how
a stone mountain became a tourist spot
✔ Anyone looking for a café break
on a Jeonju or Iksan trip
A mountain once quarried for stone
has become the view itself —
and they’re still digging that stone today.
On holidays, go ready for the crowds!
🗺 From the same Chuseok holiday
Jeonju Zoo → read the post
Jeonju Dreamland → read the post
Dinner the same day: Maillard87, Iksan → read the post
📍 Earth Under Park Iksan — open in Naver Map
Our visit during the Chuseok holiday, September 2026. Menu prices are copied from the menu board on site and match the prices on Naver Place. Address, hours, phone and parking come from Naver Place (checked 2026-10-06); the year the quarry was first developed and where its stone was used come from a Munhwa Ilbo article of June 18, 2026. All of this may change. We left out the quarry's depth because sources disagree (80 m, 100 m, 120 m). The character illustrations are GPT-generated images.
Translated from our Korean post with AI assistance. Prices, hours and other numbers were checked against the Korean original, whose details come from the menu board on site and Naver Place (checked October 6, 2026). We did not check English menus or foreign-card payment at this café. Original post (Korean)