Rising in Pyonggang County, Hantan River has the basin length of about 140km from Cheorwon and Pocheon to Yeoncheon Dogampo and is important globally and scientifically because strange rock formations and cliffs and river cliff, fluvial caves are well developed in every gorge and is a geological attraction with high educational and scenic values and is a region where ecological, archaeological, historical and cultural values are distributed. Geological heritages distributed in the geopark are valuable assets to understand materials making up the earth, formation process of these materials and history and environment of this earth and furthermore, they are valuable resources to understand even the future of the earth.
In order to obtain a further study and understanding of these geological heritages and inherit a clean natural heritage not polluted nor destroyed to our descendants, we will continue to protect and preserve it and contribute to income improvement of local residents and local economy activation by using it in education and geological tourism at the same time. To this end, our city pledges to promise and implement as follows and asks locals and Geopark visitors to observe the following faithfully.