Gyeongsangbuk-do is an important industrial and commercial center of Korea. This state offers scenic attractions, many famous temples and parks.

Gyeongju, which was the ancient capital of the thousand-year Silla Kingdom (57 B.C.-A.D. 935), is now an exceptional open-air museum. Royal tombs, temple sites with weathered stone pagodas and Buddhist reliefs and fortress ruins are scattered all around the city.

The mounded royal tombs have yielded many precious antique objects including exquisite gold crowns and other accessories.

Not far from the historic city of Gyeongju is the growing industrial city of Pohang. Pohang is the site of the POSCO steel mill. Andong is one of the last living vestiges of old Korea, a treasure-trove of Confucian tradition. Hahoe, a small village near Andong, is famous for its unique traditional masks and the mask dance-drama, Hahoe-talchum.