Ipul Indoor Garden, Eunice's Garden Botanic House (이풀실내정원, 유니스의정원 보타닉하우스)

The Eunice's Garden estate covers 27,000 pyeong (a Korean unit of area, close to 8.9 hectares) of forest and gardens at the foot of Mount Suri in Ansan. According to a press article of April 2026, work on it began in 1975 and was carried on for almost half a century by one family. A visitor's blog adds that the land was originally occupied by fields and an orchard, where young mountain cherries, maples and silhyang (실향나무) were planted first.

The museum side came later. The member-museum directory museum.or.kr, which lists the Ipul, states that the establishment was approved in 2005 and that nine years of preparation preceded the opening of the indoor garden in 2014. The name "Ipul" comes from "iroun pul", the "beneficial herb": the aim is to show various ways of gardening indoors and to offer rest and renewal through plants. The Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation dates the opening of the park itself to autumn 2007, and that of the Ipul to 2014. The site is registered as a first-class botanical garden (제1종 식물원), and, according to that directory, its outdoor paths and gardens appear in the National Arboretum's selection of Korea's hundred most beautiful gardens.

The park now goes by the name Eunice's Garden Botanic House (유니스의정원 보타닉하우스), of which the Ipul is the indoor garden.

The indoor garden was designed to follow the relief: the Korean tourism organisation describes a terraced space that keeps the slope of the hillside, and the Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation notes that the plants were set in the original ground, with the line of the ridge respected. A stepless zigzag route leads from the bottom to the top; the press and the tourism organisation say it can be used with wheelchairs and pushchairs. The theme of the place is a "garden to walk through" (걷는 정원).

A photograph published by the press in April 2026 shows a large atrium topped with glass panels set on a light lattice frame, with a row of tall glazed openings below the roof; ramps with metal railings wind between plants and flowering planters. A blog mentions trees planted under a glass roof in the passage linking the ground-floor shop to the first-floor café, and the café opens onto the garden through large windows. At the top of the route the foundation describes a space of "three-floor height" (3층 높이).

The plants are displayed in the ground along the ramp, and trees also grow under the glass roof, according to a blog. At the top, the space of "three-floor height" shows plants suited to each room of a house, such as the bedroom or the kitchen, and offers wall gardens and vertical gardens, according to the Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation. The display is thus about indoor gardening, with workshops for adults (planting, dish gardens) and children (potpourri, topiary), according to the museum.or.kr directory. The ground-floor plant shop sells potted and hydroponic plants.

Art has a regular place in the park: the tourism organisation mentions an annual event, the "Green Museum Project" (초록미술관 프로젝트), which installs works by Korean and foreign artists in the forest. Inside the glasshouse, the press reported in 2026 three large works by Jean Jullien (장 줄리앙), from his "paper people" series, titled "Giant", "Otto" and "Fusion", set against the green of the plants; a blog cites the exhibition "식물의 학생들", which runs from the outdoor garden into the interior.

The indoor garden lies further into the estate than the restaurant, a red building near the entrance, according to a blog; the plant shop is on the ground floor, the bakery café upstairs, and the zigzag route winds through the atrium. It remains modest in size: a blog speaks of a few relaxed laps, like a neighbourhood stroll, so it pairs well with the "Byeolmuri" forest path (별무리 숲길) in the outdoor garden, which the same blog judges prettiest from spring to autumn. In midwinter the outdoor garden looks bare and the interior is the more comfortable visit.

The entrance fee is included in a purchase at the restaurant or café, or paid at a kiosk on the way out, according to the press and a blog; guided tours are offered. Weekends are very busy; a blog suggests evenings or weekdays for a quieter visit. Lake Banwol is about five minutes away by car.