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Pictorial KOREA is a monthly magazine, published by

the Korean Overseas Information Service that introdu-

ces Korean art, culture, industry, lifestyles and nature to

readers the world over.

Korean Overseas Information Service

82 - 1, Sejongno, Jongno-gu, Seoul

Republic of Korea

Tel: 82 - 2 - 398 - 1910 ~ 9 Fax: 82 - 2 - 398 - 1882

http://www.korea.net

Editorial Director

Kim Young-mann

Promenade - Korean Folk Village

An Outdoor Museum Filled with the Spirit and Traditions of the

People

Produced by

Min Byeong-hoon

English Editors

Suzanne Crowder Han,

Cho Yoon-jung, Na Su-ho

Art Director

Oh Jung-eun

Senior Designers

Lee Tae-eun

Hong Min-hee

Editorial Advisers

Joo Hae-joong, Moon Mi-hwa, Park Sun-hee

Focus - Opening of the High-speed Railway

Putting the Whole Country within a Half-day's Journey

Museum - Railroad Museum

Where a Century of Korean Railroad History is Preserved

Photo Director

Park Sung-bae

Photographers

Hwang Min-kyu, Chung Han-young

Festival - First Full Moon Field Fire Festival

A Feast of Light Born of a Jejudo Folk Tradition

Printing

Samsung Moonhwa Printing Co.

Cho Young-seung, President

E-mail: smpc@korea.com

Tel: 82 - 2 - 468 - 0361/5

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Island - Geojedo Island

A Treasury of Beautiful Nature and History

Cover

Mother-of-pearl lacquerware is a native craft that has long

been admired for its delicacy and mystery. These works dis-

play the beauty of delicate patterns in brilliantly colored

mother-of-pearl against the jet-black lacquer, and are pro-

duced using such materials as natural wood, abalone and

conch shells, and feldspar in a repetitive and detailed craft-

ing process, followed by a complex lacquer process.

Here - The Dong-myeon Jade Mine

The World's Only White Jade Producing Mine

Arts - Korean Buddhist Painting

Korean Buddhist Art-Development in Union with Indigenous

Beliefs

Leisure - Skiing and Snowboarding

The Happiness and Invigorating Feeling of Swooshing Over

the Snow

Mother-of-Pearl Lacquerware

Mysterious Brilliance Brought Forth

by Delicate Devotion

Tradition - Jangseung and Beoksu

The Warm Face of Koreans behind the Gruff Mask

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Craft

Promenade

Folk Village

An Outdoor Museum Filled with the Spirit

and Traditions of the People

The Korean Folk Village (www.koreanfolk.co.kr) is an

outdoor museum that collects and preserves folk

cultural materials, offers a place of on-the-spot

learning for children, and draws foreign tourists.

About 1.8 million visitors, both foreign and domestic,

come to the Korean Folk Village each year,

highlighting it as a world-class tourist attraction.

Text by Lee Eun-jung / Photographs by Park Yul

Korean

Folk Village

An Outdoor Museum Filled with the Spirit

and Traditions of the People

The Korean Folk Village (www.koreanfolk.co.kr) is an

outdoor museum that collects and preserves folk

cultural materials, offers a place of on-the-spot

learning for children, and draws foreign tourists.

About 1.8 million visitors, both foreign and domestic,

come to the Korean Folk Village each year,

highlighting it as a world-class tourist attraction.

he traditional way of life of the Ko-

rean people, which has been handed

down for over 5,000 years, experienced

drastic changes during the Gabo Reform of

1894, forced occupation by Japan (1910-

1945), the Korean War (1950-1953) and the

Saemaeul Movement of the 1970s.

Bolstered by the efforts of cultural activists

to hand down and develop Korean traditional

culture during the 1960s, and by the govern-

ment's tourism promotion policies that sought

to draw foreign tourists to Korea during the

1970s, an advisory committee concerning the

foundation of the Korean Folk Village was

formed on January 15, 1972. On August 5 of

the following year, construction was begun on

a folk village of approximately 30 buildings on

a lot of 660,600 square meters at 107 Bora-ri,

Giheung-eup, Yongin, Gyeonggi-do province.

Initial construction was completed on October

3, 1974, and the village was opened to the

public.

From November 1976, expansion and sup-

plementation of the Korean Folk Village site

and facilities was carried out on a number of

occasions, and by March 1999 the site mea-

sured 726,962 square meters and contained

282 buildings and accompanying facilities. It

has developed into a world-class outdoor mu-

seum, employing 330 staff members, and as a

tourist attraction known around the world.

The Korean Folk Village sits at the base of a

hill that surrounds it like a windscreen. A small

stream flows through the center of the village,

and around it spread out cultivated fields. In

this way, the village follows the traditional Feng

Shui dictum that a city or town should be built

with a mountain at its back and water in front.

The village is divided into a number of areas:

the folk reenactment area, where folk materials

and the folk cultural heritage of the Korean

people are collected, re-created, restored, dis-

played, performed, preserved, and taught; the

museum area, where the Korean cultural iden-

tity is researched and studied and where edu-

cation and exchange concerning national cul-

tural heritage and folk materials takes place;

the family park, where the whole family can

enjoy various amusements and rides; and the

marketplace and convenience area, where visi-

tors can eat traditional foods and buy crafts

and souvenirs.

In the folk reenactment area, 168 houses

from the late Joseon period, each displaying

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the characteristics of a particular region, have

been moved and restored to allow visitors a

comprehensive look at the traditional way

of life of the Korean people on the Korean

Peninsula. There are also about 30,000 house-

hold items that have been gathered from each

region and arranged here, each in their proper

place. These have been restored, re-created and

displayed to allow visitors a glimpse into tradi-

tional clothing, food and housing culture of

each season, as well as occupational skills, re-

ligious ceremonies and folk pastimes. There

are private houses from the northern region,

central region, southern region, Jejudo Island,

and Ulleungdo Island, along with traditional

houses for each class and occupation. There

are also a government office, temple, Confu-

cian school, shrine, foot mill hut, water mill,

monuments, various gates and bridges, work-

shops, dry and wet cultivated fields, and a per-

forming arena.

There are about 20 artisans that work in the

workshops and in the marketplace, producing

a wide variety of articles and goods, including

pottery, wicker cases, baskets, wooden spoons,

dishes, clogs, straw shoes, mulberry paper ( han-

ji ), brassware, masks, embroidery, ornamen-

tal knots, musical instruments, folding fans,

agricultural implements, and furniture. Visitors

can see these artisans at work, observing the

processes and materials used to make the var-

ious products. The marketplace also has a large

number of food stalls that sell a variety of tra-

ditional foods, including soups, stews, noo-

dle dishes, rice cakes, and traditional liquors.

Visitors can also browse through local pro-

ducts and souvenirs from each region of the

country.

Farmer's music performances are held twi-

ce every day (at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.) in the

performing arena, a traditional wedding is

recreated twice a day at House No. 22, the

southern regional mansion (at noon and 4

p.m.) during spring and autumn, and on

certain holidays seasonal customs, religious

ceremonies and folk pastimes are enactted at

houses here and there around the village.

The convenience area has various facilities

that may be needed by visitors, such as a tea-

house, local products and souvenir shops, a

pottery exhibition hall and shop, a photo stu-

dio, a place to rent strollers or wheelchairs,

lockers for valuables, a police station, a post

office, telephone booths, and ATMs. This area

also has restaurants that offer popular Korean

foods. At the teahouse, visitors can enjoy a

variety of Korean teas, such as insam tea, ging-

ko tea, jujube tea, and Asian plum tea, as well

as porridges and a shaved ice dessert.

Folk materials that are difficult to re-create,

1 q 2. A variety of

folk pastimes,

seasonal customs,

and religious rituals

are carried out at

the performing

arena and some of

the traditional

houses. Pictured

here are represen-

tative folk pastimes:

farmer's music (left)

and rope walking

(right)

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