The area of Mt Kuwol was registered as World Network of Biosphere Reserves of UNESCO (the UN educational, scientific and cultural organization) in Juche 93 (2004).

Mt Kuwol consists of big and small queer peaks like Sahwang Peak, the main peak.

In the area, there are many historical relics such as the Tangun Pavilion where Tangun, the ancestral father of the Korean nation, cultivated his courage and the Woljong Temple with a history of more than 1 000 years.

Hundreds of kinds of plants, including pine, oak, chestnut, maple and other high trees and shrubs and vine, grow at the biosphere sanctuary. Among them are 200 species of edible herbs and medical plants like broad bellflower, milkweed, Schisandra chinensis and Aster scaber.

Inhabiting there are nearly 200 kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes and butterflies like water-deer, wild pig, pheasant, scops owl and buzzard.

There are also more than 20 kinds of endangered plants, including Gymnostemma pentaphylla (CR) and Forsythia densiflora (EN) and 30-odd kinds of endangered animals like black stork (CR), red-crowned crane (EN) and stork (EN).

Thanks to the nature conservation policy of the Workers' Party of Korea, biodiversity of the area has been actively preserved.