[Yeongju] Quaint Museom Hanok Village (영주 무섬마을) Part 3

Friday, 30 May 2014

[Yeongju] Quaint Museom Hanok Village (영주 무섬마을) Part 3

Yeongju Museom Hanok Village - a must visit Tourist Attraction in Yeongju | by Meheartseoul

Did I mentioned that this village is Seonbi's hometown. Seonbi means "virtuous scholar" who passed up positions of wealth and power to lead lives of study and and following the rightful path, even though they come from yangban class .

Great and really thankful to our taxi driver for accompanying us, else we wouldn't have so much fun exploring this village for about 2 hours. He assured and showed us around so we're totally worry free...

We even went in to some of the houses and even tried to operate some of traditional machines. You know, it won't be that case if we're there by ourselves. Do you think it's polite to just go in without permission?! I think it's impolite. Do you know that most of the residences here are scholars?! Wah... just couldn't imagine if the owner suddenly come out from the house?! What should we do? Must we greet and converse in very formal and polite Gyeongsang dialect like those in historical drama?!

Hahaha... maybe I think too much. We only saw two elderly villagers. Maybe the rest of the owners were resting inside the houses as it's quite cold outside or preparing food for dinner...

Anyway, you can really tell that you're in scholars village from their beautiful Chinese calligraphy house's plague (written by seonbis / owners?), Chinese wordings hang on the gates or wall inside their houses.

Ok, let me share some unique hanoks and eccentric and interesting things found in this village ...

Quaint Yeongju Museom Hanok Village 영주 무섬마을 | meheartseoul.blogspot.com

Nongdang Cottage (농당고택 / 农堂古宅)

Is the owner of the house a farmer?

Traditional Grain Grinder @농당고택

Demonstration on how to use it by our expert taxi driver~^^

My hubby got difficulty to pull himself up (너무 뚱뚱해 :P), but when I tried it's so easy, not even use much strength to pull myself up using my hands. Then, my husband figured out, that stand further in (not at the end) as this grinder works like seesaw. 재미 있다~! Super duper fun~!!! ㅋㅋ

Manual Foot-Operated Paddy Thresher @농당고택

Check the video below on how to operate it...

Nice wide front porch (대청) @농당고택

Imagine myself live in this hanok and having a sip of tea~

Gorgeous Oheon (오헌고택 / 吾軒古宅)

Hanok next to 농당고택!

Plague Stone direction to 오헌고택 / 吾軒古宅

This Widang Cottage (위당고택) is 마당 넓은 집 민박

(please check previous post for minbak details)

Chiryujeong (치류정 / 峙流亭)

You need to climb the stairs to access to 치류정,

as it's the only hanok sit on higher slope...

(check the video below 1:24)

剑溪古宅?

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Sigh~! so embarrassed that I don't even know how to read them.

But I love their handwriting! Feel like to knock on their doors and

ask whether I can learn calligraphy from them. I mean it!

Wow~! I found treasures!!!

so many rows of large earthen pots (옹기 = Onggi) for my few years supply of
Soybean paste (된장 = Doenjang), Soy Sauce (간장 =Ganjang), Kimchi (김치)
and Hot pepper paste (고추장 =Gochujang)~^^