Namwon Traditional Lacquer Craft Center (남원시 옻칠공예관) – Homepage www.namwon.go.kr Namwon Traditional Lacquer Craft Center is a lacquer crafts exhibition hall that opened in 2004 to spread lacquer culture, research on lacquer technology, and foster the younger generations. In Namwon, lacquer woodworking has been developed since ancient times, and traces of lacquerwork from the Bronze…
Seohak Art Village Library (서학예술마을도서관) – Homepage tour.jeonju.go.kr Seohak Art Village Library opened June 2022 in Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do. The library consists of nearly 1,000 books, making it rather small. However, the library makes up for its size with pretty decorations, making visitors want to stay longer. The library is located in an old building that…
Byeokgolje Museum of Agricultural Culture (벽골제 농경문화 박물관) – Homepage tour.gimje.go.kr – Tel +82-63-540-4989 The largest irrigation facility in Korea, Byeokgolje Reservoir (Historic Site) is considered the birthplace of Korea’s rice-farming culture. All that remains of the reservoir today are a three-kilometer long embankment that spans from Sinyong-ri to Wolseung-ri in Buryang-myeon, Gimje-si and a…
eonju Hanji Museum (전주한지박물관) – Homepage www.hanjimuseum.co.kr – Tel +82-63-210-8103 Jeonju Hanji Museum was founded to promote the excellence of hanji (traditional Korean paper) and present how it has impacted the lifestyle of Koreans in the past and the present. Hanji crafts, tools for making Hanji, ancient manuscripts and books are on display, and there…
Gochang Pansori Museum (고창판소리박물관) – Homepage www.gochang.go.kr – Tel +82-63-560-8061 The Gochang Pansori Museum was established in the old residence of ‘Dongni’ Sin Jae-Hyo (a musical theorist and arranger and a sponsor of Pansori) with the aim of honoring the great Pansori singers of the past (including Sin Jae-Hyo) and preserving and developing the indigenous…
Iksan National Museum (국립익산박물관) – Homepage iksan.museum.go.kr – Tel +82-63-830-0900 Iksan National Museum is located near Mireuksa Temple Site, one of the largest temples of the Baekje dynasty during the Three Kingdoms Period. A total of roughly 19,000 artifacts were unearthed during archaeological research in 1980-1996, and the museum was opened as Mireuksa Temple Site…
Namwon National Gugak Center (국립민속국악원) – Homepage namwon.gugak.go.kr – Tel +82-63-620-2324 The Namwon National Gugak Center, located in the birthplace of pansori, invites visitors to the enchanting world of Korean folk music, a genre known for its explicit beauty. Opened in March 1992, the center offers a variety of regular folk performances and educational programs….
Gochang Dolmen Museum (고창고인돌박물관) – Homepage www.gochang.go.kr/gcdolmen – Tel +82-63-560-8666 At the Gochang Dolmen Museum, visitors can view diverse relics and learn about the Bronze Age and the dolmen (tomb, gravesite, etc.) cultures of the world. In addition to a variety of exhibition halls, the museum also features interactive exhibit spaces that help visitors further…
Royal Portrait Museum (어진박물관) – Homepage www.eojinmuseum.org (Korean only) – Tel +82- 63-231-0090 Opened on November 6, 2010, the Royal Portrait Museum is one of the newest attractions of Jeonju, located within the Gyeonggijeon Shrine. Royal Portrait Museum is a valuable museum as a new tourism resource of Jeonju as well as Gyeonggijeon Shrine and…
Arirang Literature Museum (조정래 아리랑문학관) – Tel +82-63-540-3934 Located in Gimje, Jeollabuk-do, Arirang Literature Museum (Jo Jung-rae Arirang Literature Museum) was opened in May, 2003. The museum displays materials related to Jo Jung-rae’s novel “Arirang,” a work praised to have x_heightened Korea’s literature standards in aspects of cultural, literary, and popular value. “Arirang” takes place…