Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats
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How it came to be
Wide tidal flats line the west and south coasts of Korea along the Yellow Sea. Estuaries, open coasts, archipelagos and semi-enclosed bays, shaped by geology, tides and climate, have produced flats of different kinds. They hold 2,454 recorded species of plants and animals, 53 of them found only in the Yellow Sea.
The flats lie at the heart of the East Asian–Australasian Flyway, where 216 bird species feed, rest and breed. Twenty-four globally threatened species depend on them, among them the spoon-billed sandpiper, the Far Eastern curlew and the black-faced spoonbill.
The Tidal Flat Act of 2019 halted any further reclamation of tidal flats. In 2021 four flats, Seocheon, Gochang, Shinan and Boseong-Suncheon, covering 128,411 hectares, were inscribed as a World Heritage site. The Committee asked for a single nomination of further components, and an extension in 2026 brought the property to six parts.
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