Chollipo, Arboretum in Taean County, South Korea

Chollipo is an arboretum on 57.93 hectares at Cheollipo 1-gil 187, Sowon-myeon, Taean-gun, Chungcheongnam-do, on the western coast of South Korea. It holds 16,347 plant taxa (as of December 2017) collected from about 60 countries, with focused collections of Magnolia (789 taxa), Camellia (800), Ilex (528), Hibiscus (300) and Acer (251).

Carl Ferris Miller, an American who took South Korean citizenship in 1979, began buying land at Chollipo beach in the early 1960s and planted an arboretum there from 1962. The Chollipo Arboretum Foundation was registered with the Korea Forest Service on 5 August 1996 to compare Korean and foreign plants and to run plant education. The grounds cover 57.93 hectares.

The arboretum is named after Chollipo, the coastal area of Taean where Carl Ferris Miller began buying land in 1962. Miller, an American who became a South Korean citizen in 1979, served as the first director from July 1979 to April 2002. The foundation runs education programmes for experts, teachers and the general public on plant resources and their conservation.

The arboretum covers 57.93 hectares at 187 Cheollipo 1-gil, Sowon-myeon, Taean-gun, with the entrance at Uihang-ri 114. Paths link the magnolia, camellia, holly, hibiscus and maple collections, so plan for a long walk on foot and wear sturdy shoes. The coastal climate keeps summers cooler and winters milder than the inland, but wind off the sea is worth preparing for.

Chollipo holds one of the world's five focus collections of holly (Ilex), with 528 taxa, and is a registered reference institution of the International Holly Society. In 2000 the International Dendrology Society certified it as the twelfth garden worldwide and the first in Asia among its beautiful arboreta.