Last weekend I traveled a couple of hours outside of Seoul to Suwon, SK. There lies a heritage site turned into a replica of a traditional folk village. It was amazing! The place was huge. We spent over four hours there and only got to see about half of it. It was a real ‘hands on’ place with lots of learning through doing. It felt peaceful and it was really beautiful. On the grounds they have over 250 buildings, from a Nobleman’s house, to Commoners’ houses, blacksmith, basket and silk weaving and paper making sites, farming grounds, pottery kilns, ‘traditional food-court’, temples, shrines….And the people who worked there walked around in traditional garb.
We also got to see some really cool performances including the traditional drum dancers, tight-rope walking, seesawing, and equestrian acrobatics. We missed the reenactment of a traditional wedding ceremony, but I will just have to catch that some other time!
As always, I have even more photos….click here to see them.
What an amazing experience!!
Very nice!!