LOCATION | 9-3 Gulam-ri, Gangcheon-myeon, Yeoju-gun 
 TEL | 82-31-882-8100
 URL | www.womanlife.or.kr
 
A museum located in Gangnam branch school of Gangcheon primary school in Gulam-ri,Gangcheonmyeon, Yeoju-gun, Gyeonggi province.
 

Transportation

Public Transportation

Take bus No.10 at the Yeoju bus station, get off at the Museum.

By Car

Take Yeongdong expressway, get off the expressway into Yeoju I.C. and turn to the right hand side. Keep driving straight on to downtown Yeoju, pass by Yeoju university, enter toward the Icheon-Wonju motor-vehicle-only lane and pass through Iho bridge, then turn to the right hand side at Gancheon I.C., pass by the Gangcheon middle school and make a right-hand-side turn at the foot of hillside road. Keep advancing straight toward Gangcheon-ri and Gulam-ri.





Detail information

Service hour : 09:00~18:00

The branch school was renovated into a museum after its closing.

Daily commodities and acessaries that our own Korean mothers used to use in their actual life in the past are on display. Artist Lee Min Jeong specialist in natural dyeing established the museum, and the artist has researched and excavated the country’s native folk culture, inventing

unique colored dyes by taking advantage of nature and illuminating them again in the name of culture class. Visitors can view not only the women-related remains but such items giving the hint of life of the

public in the past such as furniture, clothes, accessories, living gadgets, and others in the museum.

EXHIBITION HALL

The Tea Ceremony Room There are tea wares and tea kits from Korea, China and Japan on display, as well as the room for manners where visitors can learn the decent manners of the tea ceremony. Showroom for Natural Dyeing It displays textiles colored with dyes extracted from plants, minerals and so on. Exhibition of Furniture and Household Supplies Visitors can find wool looms, bedside chests, medicine chests, palanquin, etc. Showroom for Classical Clothes and Accessories

Clothes and accessories such as official uniforms, wedding dresses, underpants, and others are on display.

SPECIAL PROGRAM

Dye Program Natural dye classes are ongoing by seasons, periods

and natures. The programs are available on family basis and

everybody is able to learn them . The Tea Ceremony Experience

School It is the program for experience & learning, which enables you to learn about the tea ceremony and try the traditional green tea.

NOTE

Women's Dresses and Ornaments in the Joseon Era Clothes were different from social classes in their colors and materials, and also changed in their length and designs by ears. In the past, there were customs among people to put on multiple layers of underwear clothes and orders they had to follow when wearing such underwear. Especially, the women of the Joseon era, when men and women should strictly keep their courteous distance from each other, had extra clothes for facehiding

purpose only such as veils, coverlets, conical wide-brimmed hats, cloaks, headcover skirts, etc. Women's hairstyle was also different from classes or circumstances.
 
 


  Last modified : 2009. 08. 13

  Source : Woman Life Museum

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  Reference : 031-882-8100
 
 


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