Meheartseoul | ~sweet memories~: 03/20/15

Friday 20 March 2015

[Suwon City Tour] - Haewoojae Mr Toilet House

We left Gwangjang market at around 7:30 and walked to Jongno 5-ga station. Then we took the subway to Suwon. It supposed to take about 1 hour 15 minutes for 26 stations.

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We took longer because we thought we'd to transfer at Guro station,

we went up and down and waited for the next train and worried

we might be late to join for Suwon City Tour.

We reached Suwon Station Exit 5 at 9:15am

and saw the Tour bus parked there.

The driver told us to buy the ticket from Suwon Tourist Information Center.

Lucky that it still have available seats for us. Phew~!^^

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On the bus, the tour guide distributed headsets and City Tour Course leaflets to everyone.

There's a lady guide following and guided us along the course. She apologized because she normally only guiding Japanese and domestic tourists, so she only can speak a little bit of English. Well, it's actually our fault for not reserved the tour earlier. I believe they'll arrange an English tour guide if we booked it earlier.

We really appreciated her effort and tried her best to briefly introduce the places to us in English. Well, we're quite surprised as the rest joining this tour were Korean local tourists!

Actually, it's totally fine for us, there's audio guide on each seat with 4 languages option. You can select your preferred language, and listen to the introduction of the next destination.

Our first destination - Haewoojae ( 해우재 ) Mr Toilet House

These two poopies welcoming us at the entrance...

Ate Poop Bread (Ddong Bbang) at Insadong yesterday, and today we're visiting Mr Toilet with a lot of poopies similar shape with ddongbbang.

‘Haewoojae’ literally means a place where one can solve one’s worries.

Gaeddong-yi is a name given as the person was born in a toilet of

his mother's parents' home! Maybe it was the reason that

Mr Sim Jae-duck was so attached to toilets.

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When he was the Mayor of Suwon City, he started a campaign

to improve toilets. He contributed to the improvement of

the Korean toilet culture movement.

Sim Jae-duck or Mr. Toilet destroyed his house where he lived for 30 years,

and built this gigantic toilet bowl-shaped house that he could actually live in it.

It's constructed on 1,994.00m2 land with a building size of 239.09m2 and a total floor area of 418.17m2. The museum’s rooftop is shaped like a toilet seat, lined with flags from some of the 66 member nations of the WTA.