Fresh Artistic Experience at Jangi-Gol

Jangi-gol, the place with the harmony of culture, arts and the nature, is located in the provincial area with the natural advantage. We can see wild flowers in full bloom on the way to Jangi-gol. At the end of the road, there is a playground of a closed school. Statues of a reading girl, a boy with a torch and King Sejong are placed on the playground, and the old goal post with weeds possesses a charm of its own. A large plane tree looking like Baobab tree creates the artistic atmosphere.

Jangi-gol is a space for cultural and artistic experience which was opened in 1996. Using the closed elementary school in Jangwoe-ri, Seosin-myeon, Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do, one-day programs, two-day programs, student camp, diverse workshops and corporate training programs are operated. Programs targeting children of pre-school ages and primary school students include pottery making, natural dyeing, natural herb soap making, tofu making, modern etiquettes, tea ceremony, candle making, martial arts, Pungmulnori lessons and Pungmulnori performance programs.

Participants of the pottery making program learn and practice making cups and dishes. Participants of the natural herb soap making program learn about types and efficacy of herbs and make their own soaps by adding essence oils, lavender, herbs and plants to ingredients of natural soaps. Participants of the natural dyeing course create beautiful colors using natural materials such as wormwood, yellow mud, Cape jasmine and sappan wood. Participants of the traditional martial art program learn how to use wooden swords and marital arts demonstrations of members of the 24 Marital Arts Conservation Society. During Pungmulnori programs, participants learn how to do Samulnori and have a performance. Programs on modern etiquettes and tea ceremony feature rules of a bow, right manner, etiquettes, tea-drinking etiquettes and rules of the tea ceremony. Jangi-gol also operates tofu making, candle making and Korean papercraft programs. Korean papercraft program is operated around the year, and participants learn how to make Korean paper and great craftwork with the paper.
Participants of the one-day course can usually complete one program, and those of the two-day course can complete two or three programs. For accommodation fee and tuition, please contact the office. The programs are operated for pre-school children and elementary school students.

The programs are operated at a closed elementary school. The school with 12 classrooms, a playground with the area of 991㎡, the surrounding area of over 660㎡ and the forest of over 6,600㎡ serves as a perfect venue for operating the programs. There is an experience center that can accommodate up to over 200 participants, as well as an outdoor classroom and a traditional pottery kiln. There is a forest right beside Jangi-gol, providing a perfect place for a walk.

Jangi-gol hosts Jangi-gol Culture and Arts Festival every year, which features diverse genres of artistic activities including performances, exhibitions and plays. Natural dyeing exhibition, Ongi Maksabal Exhibition, and Play of Rice written by Kim Ji-Ha were held.

Jangi-gol is located in Seosin-myeon, which is well known for grapes. There are vineyards on both sides of the way to Jangi-gol. The grape picking program was also operated jointly by Jangi-gol and a neighboring grape farm. Jangi-gol operates special programs by season.
Contact: 031-356-9883

Name	Jangi-gol
Address	2 Jangwoe-ri, Seosin-myeon, Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do
Contact (Website)	031-356-9883. www.jangi-gol.net
Location (Access from National Roads and Expressways)	Bibong IC of Seohaean Expressway à City Hall (Namyang) à Sagang and Songsan à Go to the direction of Jebu Island at the two-way junction Public Transportation: Bus No. 330 at Geumjeong Station à Gwangpyeong Samgeori (get off at Goramul Mart) à 5 minutes’ walking distance Bus No. 400, 460 and 999 at Suwon Station à Get off at Seosin à Take City Bus à Gwangpyeong Samgeori (get off at Goramul Mart) à 5 minutes’ walking distance
Overview of Facilities	The total area of 11,880 m² Building: accommodate up to 200 people Meals are provided Experience Center: the area of 198 m² Additional facility: 99 m².
History	Jangi-gol was established in 1996. Pottery programs were operated at first, and then natural dyeing, natural herb soap making, tofu making, modern etiquettes, tea ceremony, candle making, martial arts, Pungmulnori lessons and Pungmulnori performance programs were added.
Description  (Fact-Based Characteristics)	Pottery programs were operated at first, and then natural dyeing, natural herb soap making, tofu making, modern etiquettes, tea ceremony, candle making, martial arts, Pungmulnori lessons and Pungmulnori performance programs were added.
Tips for Visitors	Reservations are required. There are one-day programs and one-night two-day programs. Participants of the one-day programs may choose one out of diverse programs, and those of the two-day programs may choose two or three out of diverse programs. Information about fees is provided when making reservations.
Operating (Opening) Hours	365 days a year
Admission (Accommodation) Fees	For admission fees, contact the office.
Adjacent Tourist Destinations	Jebudo (Island)

 

Restaurant Options	There are two restaurants in front of Jangi-gol and there is one more near Gwangpyeong Samgeori. They serve ordinary foods.
Remark (Events and Promotion)	Jangi-gol operates corporate training programs, and hosts Jangi-gol Culture and Arts Festival in July or August. The Festival features performances and exhibitions.

Having Korean Beef and Taking a Walk in Forest with Arts.

- Travel to ‘Munsusan Beef Village’ and ‘Gimpo Sculpture Park’ in Gunha-ri, Wolgot-myeon, Gimpo, Gyeonggi-do -

Gunhari, Gimpo, that is reborn as a beef village
In Gunha-ri, Wolgot-myeon, Gimpo, Gyeonggi-do, the ‘Munsusan (Mt.) Beef Village’ was formed in May, 2009. A company named ‘Dahanoo’, which distributes and sells Korean beef, is supplied the Korean cow raised in the livestock farmhouses in Gimpo region to sell it to travelers who visit here.

The Korean beef, which is available here, is only a cow beef and castrated bull raised in the Korean beef village in Gimpo. Five to six parts of beef, including sirloin, tenderloin, and beef brisket are sold at KRW 28,000 per 600 g of a pack, and 360g of beef shoulder costs around KRW 28,000. The costs of other beefs are different for each part and each weight. A dish of minced raw beef and raw meat are also available here. (Seasoning for mixing should be additionally paid in a restaurant). The Munsusan beef village has the ‘Dahanoo Gimpo Main Shop’, which sells meat, and a customer purchases the meat here and then goes to another restaurant to roast and eat the meat.

The ‘Dahanoo Gimpo Main Shop’ is a meat wholesale center that sells only Korean beef. People purchases meat here and then go to a nearby restaurant to roast and eat it. The restaurant serves basic foods as side dishes for meat such as lettuces, radish rolls, and onion pickles, kimchi, etc., and is paid KRW 3,000 per person (7 years old or older). The mushroom roasted along with meat should be additionally paid KRW 3,000. Lettuces and other side dishes are refilled at free charge. (However, according to the climate or situation such as a rainy season, for additionally ordered lettuces, a certain cost should be burdened. Along with meat, Korean rice also can be ordered. 1 bowl of rice costs KRW 1,000, soybean paste stew (doenjangjjigae) costs KRW 1,000, Naengmyeon costs KRW 4,000, and beef soup costs KRW 6,000. ‘Dahanoo’ is currently contracted with nine restaurants as of July, 2009. Any restaurant among these ones serves beef roast basic foods to customers.


Eating Korean beef and walking an alley of a beef village
After eating the Korean beef, taking a walk along the buildings and alleys of village is recommended. In order to emphasize the image of the ’beef village’, on the walls of buildings and fences of alleys Korean beef pictures are drawn. Also a narrow alley formed by old houses forms warm atmosphere. On the old fence of alley on a main street and under the old slate roof, a yellow signboard is hung. The signboard, ‘Somang Supermarket’, matches with the old alley to produce a simple image. From a piano academy next to the supermarket, music played by children is flowing out. On the faces of children who get together at random on the road in front of the piano academy, natural laughing is overflowing. A ten minute walk on foot enables a customer to look around all alleys of the village.

Taking a walk on the forest road in Gimpo Sculpture Park
Another thing to enjoy in Munsusan beef village in Gimpo is taking a walk along the forest road in the Gimpo Sculpture Park.
Since the distance from the beef village to Gimpo Sculpture Park is around one kilometer so that people can walk to reach the village. The forest road in Gimpo Sculpture Park is good for walking. The mountain is low so that the uphill road is not long. The forest is thickened. Thirty art works are placed here and there along the walk road.
People can appreciate the works of artists from Korea, America, Japan, France, Britain, Belgium, Italy, China, Germany, Swiss, and Spain, etc. The art works in this forest were formed under the theme of harmony between nature, art, and human. It takes around two hours to look around the art works here and there on the forest road.
Also since here there are a water sled field, snow sled field, and swimming pool, etc., people can enjoy along with children. The cost is KRW 7,000 for adults, and KRW 4,000 for children.

Name	Gimpo Munsusan Beef Village(Dahanoo village in Gimpo)
Address	110-5, Gunha-ri, Wolgot-myeon, Gimpo, Gyeonggi-do
Inquiry and contact point (Homepage)	Gimpo Main Shop in Dahanoo village 031-984-1170, Website: www.Dahanoo.com
Direction (Basis of near national road and expressway)	*Car Seoul outer ring road Gimpo IC – Road No. 48 in the direction of Gimpo, Yangchon, Tongjin, Wolgot – Gunha-ri beef village after Masong (follow the information of navigation on the direction to ‘Wolgotmyeon office’. It is the beef village that is near the Wolgotmyeon office and agricultural cooperative.) The distance from the beef village to Gimpo Sculpture Park is around 1 km. A 15 minute walk can reach the beef village. * Public Transportation If a visitor gets off in the direction of Songjeong elementary school at Songjeong subway station line no. 5, he/she will meet the bus stop that leads to Gimpo and Ganghwa. If he/she gets off at Gunha-ri bus stop, he/she arrives at Dahanoo village in Gimpo. Also in front of Yeongdeungpo subway station, and Ilsan Madu Subway Station, there are buses.
Facility size	One butcher wholesale shop (Dahanoo Gimpo Main Shop) and nine restaurants that serve the basic foods for roasting and eating meat. (As of July of 2009).
History	As the Dahanoo Gimpo Main Shop is opened in Gunha-ri, Wolgot-myeon, Gimpo city in May, 2009, the formation of the Munsusan beef village (Dahanoo village in Gimpo) started. It is planned to start the construction of five butcher wholesale shops and 20 restaurants in this year.
Characteristics (Arranged writing centering around facts of object regions in addition to the coverage note.)	It is planned to put the statement, ‘Dahanoochon’, on the signboards of houses that have already hung their signboards as well as on those of restaurants in the village in Gunha-ri, Wolgot-myeon, Gimpo City. The murals related to Korean beef are drawn on the outer walls of buildings at alleys of the village to form a Korean beef village atmosphere. Restaurants contract with the Korean beef farm houses in Gimpo to be supplied Korean beef. Among Korean beef, only the meats of cow and castrated bull are available.
Know-how and caution related to facility use and experience	The system is that a customer buys meat in Dahanoo Gimpo Main Shop (butcher wholesale shop) and then goes to the nearby restaurant and roasts and eats meat there. The restaurant serves basic foods (lettuces, kimchi, onion pickle, radish roll, soybean paste, garlic, etc.) and receives KRW 3,000 per person who is older than age seven. The mushroom roasted for eating along with meat costs KRW 3,000. The lettuces and side dishes are limitlessly refilled but according to the climate and situation such as the rainy season in summer, a certain cost may be paid for additional lettuces.
Operating hours	As for Dahanoo Gimpo Main Shop (butcher wholesale shop), 10:00 am~9:00 p.m. As for the nearby restaurant, 10:00 a.m. ~ the time until a customer stays (since Dahanoo Gimpo Main Shop is closed in 9:00 p.m., the restaurant opens until a customer who bought meat and visited the restaurant by 9:00 p.m. leaves.)
Price for use (lodging)	Prices are variable for each part and for each weight like that assorted beef of five to six parts meats such as sirloin, tenderloin, and beef brisket costs KRW 28,000 per pack of 600 g, and beef shoulder costs KRW 28,980 per 350g; 600 g of back rib costs KRW 18,000, and 600 g of beef shank costs KRW 18,000; 600 g of roast beef costs KRW 18,000 and 600 g of beef eye of round costs KRW 18,000; 600 g of short plate costs KRW 24,000 and 600 g of steamed rib costs KRW 9,800; 100 g of feet costs KRW 2,500 and100 g of beef leg bone costs KRW 1,900; 100g of tail costs KRW 1,900 and 100 g of knee cartilage costs KRW 2,700.
Tourism attraction around the village	In the Gimpo Sculpture Park, there are a water sled field and snow sled field. On the way to the Gimpo Sculpture Park from the beef village, there is a Gimpo herb land. Deokpojin (beach) and Aegibong(peak), etc. are near the village that can be reached by car. Right across the Ganghwadaegyo(bridge), visitors can reach Ganghwado(island).
Accommodations	In the Munsusan beef village in Gimpo, there are two inns. A short distance driving of car reaches the lodging facilities such as Yakam Tourist Hotel, Rex Hotel, Paradise, and Greenhouse, etc.
Recommended restaurants	Beef village restaurants
Other specific matters (event, promotion, etc.)	Early every month, the event that will be held next month is decided. In July, ‘Korean beef and Makgeoli (rice wine) Festival’ is held. There were progressed previously events such as a public auction for KRW 1,000, meat bargain sale, and sales with the price of 30 years ago, etc.

 

 

 

Changing from holiday resort to art village, little by little!

Jangheung Art Village

You will feel a little bit disappointed to learn about the reality of the area of Jangheung tourist resort if you only know that the area is transforming itself into an art village. There are still restaurants, small playgrounds and motels. But changes are on their way as well. 

Until the early 1990s, Jangheung was one of the most popular excursion areas in the northern region of Seoul. People loved the area as a place for family excursions and outdoor activities with friends and lovers, as there were beautiful valleys and well-known restaurants in the region. Unfortunately, however, people stopped visiting the area in the middle of the 1990s, when it became chaotically studded with motels. Even now, motel signboards can easily be found from the entrance to the area. Fortunately, not only is the number of motels decreasing, but the motels are also being changed into family hotels, through the continuous efforts of the government of the city of Yangju. Remarkable also is the fact that the local government is renovating motels into ateliers for painters after purchasing them.

These kinds of efforts have been underway for several years already. The local government, many people working in the cultural-artistic communities and some merchants of Jangheung who did not want to see the community decline have begun to give new life to the area. Their plan was very creative. They planned to make a new center for culture and art, by benchmarking activities in the city of Paris (France) and the privileged art zone in Beijing. For this kind of plan, time and cooperation are necessary. Anyway, the plan is moving along without big problems. In 2006, Jangheung Art Park opened, as the first fruit of their efforts. The art park is crowded with many family tourists because of its special attractions as a place for art and play. In 2007, a sculpture academy opened, and next year the Cheon Gyeong-Ja Municipal Art Museum will be opened. Artists are gathering together thanks to the vital activities for the creation of ateliers.

The most visited place where these vigorous activities are going on is Jangheung Art Park. Spanning more than 26,400 m², the whole area is full of “art that has become play.” The area is composed of diverse districts: the open-air art museum divided into Bourdelle Garden, Tattoo & Fireworks Sculpture Park, Han Jin-seob Children Garden, etc., the art museum that presents permanent & planned exhibitions, Blue Space and Red Space that are gallery-type pavilions, the children’s playground and experience park that are much loved by children, the open-air public performance theater, restaurants, and more. The area is packed with visiting families on weekends, especially because the area is equipped with spaces for exhibitions and playgrounds for children. Jangheung Atelier, which was built as a creation space for artists after the renovation of the purchased motels near the area, opened its second atelier in 2008. This atelier is now running well, with more than 60 painters having moved into the space. The sculpture academy that has been built on an abandoned swimming pool and old amusement park now provides painters with open studios and exhibition spaces. Some experience programs related to sculpture, such as Making Balloons Animals and Photographing Animal Sculptures, are also available.

Around the area, one can also find many tourist resorts. In CheongAm Folklore Museum, which was built at the entrance to the art village before the creation of the village, old daily necessities and folk goods are displayed, which give many older people a nostalgic thrill. One can also observe the restored blacksmith’s shop, the main living room, the village well and so on in the museum. In addition, there are spaces where people can experience folk games like Jegichagi (Shuttlecock with the Feet), Tuho (Arrow Throwing) and seesawing. Some other programs are offered, including Pizza Experience, in which children can make a pizza. Songam Space Center, situated on the peak of Gyemyeongsan (Mt.) and reachable by cable car, is a sort of universe-focused theme park. The park is equipped with a digital planetarium that gives visitors an indirect experience of space travel through 3-D image projection, observation facilities, a lodging accommodation “Star House” in which the lodgers can go to sleep looking at the stars, and an Italian restaurant “Stars Kitchen.”

The city of Yangju offers bus tour programs focused on various themes from Tuesday to Sunday. On Saturdays and Sundays, a program to experience the cultural-artistic zone is available. This program is highly recommended as it is accompanied by the good explanations and interpretations of the culture & tourism commentators.

Locality: Jangheung Art Village
Address: Jangheung-myeon, Yangju, Gyeonggi-do
Contact: 031-820-2122 (Tourism Promotion Team of Yangju City)
How to get there: Turn to the right toward Bukhansanseong at the Gupabal Three Forks Junction, and then go about 10 km along local road 371. You will see an overpass (SR 39). Enter Jangheung tourist resort after doing a P-turn in front of Nonghyup.

Facilities: Jangheung Art Park, Sculpture Academy, Cheongam Folklore Museum, etc.
History: After the opening of Jangheung Art Park in May 2006, additional facilities have been built continuously.

Opening hours:
Jangheung Art Park – Weekdays - 10a.m.-6p.m.(last entrance 5p.m.) / Weekends & Public Holidays – 10a.m.-7p.m. (last entrance 6p.m.) / Closed on Mondays
Fee:

Jangheung Art Park – Adults 7,000 Won / Children (36 months to elementary students) 5,000 Won / Entrance for children under 36 months is free
Sculpture Academy – Adults 1,000 Won / Youth 800 Won / Children 600 Won
Bus tour program (Experience cultural-artistic zone) – Saturdays Adults 9,000 Won / Students 4,500 Won / Preschoolers 3,500 Won
Sunday night tour (supper included) Adults 21,000 Won / Students 17,000 Won / Preschoolers 16,000 Won

Adjacent tourist resorts: Songam Space Center, CheongAm Folklore Museum, Jangheung Natural Arboretum, Grave of General Gwonyul

Lodging information: The Herb Thema Pension (031-836-0282), where you can enjoy the fresh air of Jangheung Natural Arboretum and Santorini Dome (031-855-2714, www.remarque.co.kr) with exotic exteriors are highly recommendable.
Recommended restaurants: At Small Territory (031-855-5670), you can enjoy the good taste of well-prepared traditional Korean set menus, or you can visit Gyowoesun (031-855-4336) if you want to give a try eating at a countryside dining table in a tile-roofed house that will help you recall the good old days.