We got to Jeonju around 4 o'clock and headed for the town's proudest attraction, the Hanok Village, or Hanongmaul (한옥마을). This is an area where many hanok (traditional Korean style houses) have been preserved and/ or restored.
In this area, you can find many stores that sell (very expensive) hand crafted items. Paper products are famous in the area and there were so many beautiful paper lamps and paper fans to see. It really reminded me of Insadong, but on a more spread out scale, since the "village" goes for several blocks.
There are also many guesthouses in the area where you can stay in a "real" hanok. They seemed a little expencive for probably being extremely basic like the one I stayed in in Gyeongju, but I guess everyone should experience it once.
Also among the hanok, there were some museums and cultural experiences as well.
The boyfriend trying out a Korean game 굴렁쇠(Rolling Iron)
Traditional Korean music performers
A Korean version of horseshoes where you have to toss an iron ring onto a post... none of use could do it...
Pots used for Korean food like kimchi, gojujang (hot pepper paste), dwingchang (bean paste) etc..
These traditional Korean shoes are made from rice stalks.
These traditional Korean shoes are made from rice stalks.
This cathedral is actual outside of the village, but it's quite close. We wanted to go inside, but there was mass going on....
After this we headed out to have our "makkoli experience", but I'll leave that for the next post. Enjoy for now, and pray for the poor North Korean players who may now be sentenced to prison camp for their embarrassing 7:0 loss to Portugal..
After this we headed out to have our "makkoli experience", but I'll leave that for the next post. Enjoy for now, and pray for the poor North Korean players who may now be sentenced to prison camp for their embarrassing 7:0 loss to Portugal..
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