Lying in a spacious site of 990,000㎡ and in nature-given geomantic location ‘facing water and backgrounded by mountains’, Korean Folk Village (KFV) is a village from the Joseon period composed of real houses relocated from provinces of the country. Reconstructed through a long survey of houses remaining in different parts of the country and authentication by specialists, it is a real village from the Joseon period that unfolds in seasonal transformation scenes from everyday folk culture meticulously collected.
The village was created with common people’s houses and aristocrats’ houses relocated or restored from different parts of the country such as south, middle, north, and islands. It presents the real life from old Joseon life, which includes gwana (provincial government office), seowon and seodang (the educational institutions), hanyakbang (the medical institution), Buddhist temples and seonangdang (the religious buildings), and the fortune-teller’s place.
Folk culture in all seasons and various traditional experiences await visitors.
※ The schedule of the events is subject to change due to weather conditions and internal reasons.
※ Ferry boat riding and traditional dyeing experience are not available in winter (december through February).
A traditional craft workshop that affirms the artistic spirit of an artisan.
※ Here, visitors can purchase traditional handicraft items made by an artisan who has cherished traditional methods for decades.
Visitors can meet various bamboo ware exuding an artisan’s tact including items for daily life such as sewing box, Dutch wife, and basket as well as furniture, stationery, and playthings.
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Demonstrating the beauty and style of wood, the wooden utensils workshop allows a visitor to witness the making of items in daily life such as hongdukae (wooden cloth roller), soban (small portable dining table), and laundry bats.
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A visitor can witness and experience the making of pottery, a living proof of ancestors’ wisdom. The products from the earthenware workshop practices the traditional method in glazing and carefully firing earthenware. (Experience making earthenware)
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Manufacturing high quality brass tableware, the bronze workshop is a pride of KFV. The bronze spoon set from the workshop produced with artisans’ sweats and passion are popular with visiting foreigners. (Demonstration in bronze craft)
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At the pyrography workshop, visitors can appreciate the process of drawing or writing on wood or paper with hot instruments as well as various pyrography. (Demonstration of pyrography)
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he workshop presents wooden mask craft, which consists in carving paulownia and alder with a knife. A visitor can feel the touch of an artisan who renders with subtle carving the various characteristics of a human. (Demonstration of mask carving craft)
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The workshop uses water boiled with gardenia seeds and sappan wood in it to color cotton. Especially the ‘experience of naturally dyeing handkerchief’remains a popular program available from the dyeing workshop.(Experience of naturally dyeing handkerchief)
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Visitors can learn how to make and play danso (short bamboo flute) and how to play mulpiri (water flute) from an artisan of the workshop, a master player of daegeum (large flute). (Experience danso making etc.)
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KFV tobacco pipe workshop uses nickel plated brass to solder it to bamboo. The artisan who came from Namwon, famous for tobacco pipes, has manufactured tobacco pipes for over sixty years. (Demonstrating the making of tobacco pipe)
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The place reproduces the process of making straw shoes by plaiting straws skillfully. Visitors can meet here an artisan who twists straws in the traditional method to make straw shoes. (Demonstration of the making of straw shoes / experience of getting into straw shoes)
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※ The schedule of the events is subject to change due to weather conditions and internal reasons.
