Korean Folk Village

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The Korean Folk Village is one of the places tourists visit the most with around 1800,000 domestic and international visitors each year,  and is also the place where tradition comes to life.

It is an open-air folk museum where Korea's cultural properties are collected and preserved.  Visitors can learn and experience the traditional Korean way of life at this place. The Korean Folk Village reproduces the way of people's life, done during the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910).

Visitors can see the lifestyle in that period, through 270 farmhouses from all provinces, a nobleman's house, a village school, a mill, rice paddies and dry fields. In addition, there is a museum where Korean cultural materials are exhibited.   People can enjoy at the park, eat traditional food at the market place inside the park, and buy some souvenirs and industrial art objects.

In the museum visitors will see about 30,000 household effects collected from each province, and can also see the food, houses, costumes, with people who live and work in traditional ways.

In the market, artisans make baskets, chinaware, tools, and fans, and traditional music is played as traders sell traditional food such as soybean paste stew, boiled rice with assorted mixtures and cold noodles called 'Naengmyeon. Additionally, regional products and souvenirs of each province are sold.

Besides, traditional festivals, visitors can see a traditional marriage ceremony, and various cultural customs that ancient Koreans wore on festival days. In the cultural edifice, visitors can read about marriage, funerals, beliefs of people during Joseon Dynasty.