Anseong Farmland

A dairy experiment became a visitor landscape

On October 11, 1969, the Han-German Dairy Demonstration Ranch opened on this site after Korean-German cooperation financed a model dairy farm and the purchase of 200 cows. The ranch produced milk, trained livestock farmers and distributed calves as part of an effort to build Korea’s modern dairy base

The land kept changing with the industry. In the 1980s it became a demonstration ranch for cattle, pigs and chickens; in 2001 it shifted toward Hanwoo breeding, in 2003 it produced Korea’s first organic livestock products, and by 2008 it was making and supplying organic feed. The current attraction grew from that working sequence rather than from a purpose-built petting zoo

Anseong Farmland opened on April 21, 2012, when Nonghyup recast the ranch as a place where agriculture and livestock could be experienced directly. Barns, animals and pasture remained the raw material; tourism, education and recreation were added around them

The livestock route is still the core

The experience ranch brings visitors close to cattle, donkeys, sheep, geese, rabbits and other farm animals, with feeding among the regular activities. Horseback riding is substantial enough to occupy its own 20,550-square-metre center with indoor and outdoor arenas

Individual experience rides can be bought on site. The riding center accepts visitors from 36 months to under 60 years old, sets a 90-kilogram safety limit for adult riders, and pauses between noon and 13:00. That makes riding a real scheduled activity inside the day, not a token lap attached to the entrance

Near the central activity areas, children’s rides include a carousel, mini train and mini Viking; separate rocket and UFO rides and a trampoline area add a conventional amusement layer beside the livestock zones. Visitors still move between those rides, paddocks, barns and riding facilities that developed from a working livestock estate

Most of the scale is grass

The former ranch covers roughly 1.29 million square metres, and historical reporting puts about 990,000 square metres of it in pasture. That scale changes the experience: animal encounters occupy only part of the day, while long grassland walks and changing planted fields use the rest of the estate

The official walking routes pass pasture, Pinwheel Hill, Muhly Hill and other open landscape sections. Seasonal crops and flowers change what fills those fields, but the durable feature is the amount of open agricultural land between the activity zones

Families therefore have three different ways to use the same property: stay close to the livestock, build the visit around riding and children’s activities, or spend a large part of it walking the former ranch landscape

Before you go

The site is too large for every zone to function as a quick add-on. Horseback riding has a midday break and can involve waits, which makes it a separate time block from the pasture circuit. For younger children, the livestock areas and nearby play facilities can already fill a substantial visit without covering the full grounds