Silmido

Silmido (Silmi Island) is an uninhabited island in the Yellow Sea, off the west coast of South Korea. It has an area of about 0.25 km2 (62 acres). It lies within the borders of Incheon metropolitan city, and is about 5 kilometres (3 miles) southwest of Yongyu Island where lies the Incheon International Airport. Silmido lies just offshore of the larger, inhabited island of Muuido, which is connected to the mainland by ferry. Most of the island consists of hills that are around 80 metres (300') high.

This article is about the island. For the film of the same name, see Silmido (film). For the North Korean island, see Sinmido.
Silmido
Map of Silmido and the surrounding area.
Korean name
Hangul
실미도
Hanja
Revised RomanizationSilmido
McCune–ReischauerSilmido

Silmido became historically significant when it was used as the training ground (January 21, 1968 to August 23, 1971) for Unit 684, a South Korean military detachment created to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Il Sung in response to the Blue House raid assassination attempt against President Park Chung Hee. Traces of the training facilities can still be seen. Under circumstances which remain unclear, the members of the group mutinied and went to Seoul in 1971, where they were killed or committed suicide.

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