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Blume Museum of Contemporary Art

The Blume Museum of Contemporary Art (BMOCA) was opened in Heyri Art Village in April 2013. BMOCA interprets the contemporary art field by presenting art according to specialized themes, and it is communicating with the local community and the general public by operating various educational programs. It is introducing contemporary art under the theme of architecture created with the harmony of nature and humans and is offering the interpretation of contemporary art and the venue of experiences through a children’s educational program titled “Big Tree Within the Museum of Art.” By succeeding the philosophy of artist Baik Soon-shil, it is interpreting contemporary art through communication with various genres such as experiments with specialized themes, materials, and media as well as with spatial exploration, literature, and music.

LocationPaju

TypeGallery&Museum
Museum of the World’s Musical Instruments, Heyri Art Village in Paju

This musical instrument museum is exhibiting some 2,000 folk musical instruments from 100 countries around the world. The museum is filled with unique folk musical instruments from Asia, Africa, Oceania, Europe, and Latin America. Folk music refers to the type of music performed or sung by people who live together in an area to express their feelings. It was transmitted orally, so the creator of folk music as well as its history is mostly not known. Note, however, that folk music has been with the local people for a long period of time, so it reflects the history and story of the people well. Folk musical instruments have been developed along with folk music. Musical instruments helped people share their thoughts and feelings. Primitive musical instruments developed into folk instruments that perform rhythm and beats unique to each folk area. Folk musical instruments expressing happiness, sadness, and excitement are important in telling the history and sentiment of a nation.

LocationPaju

TypeGallery&Museum
Time Capsule, Heyri Art Village in Paju

Time Capsule is an old life experience museum located in Heyri Art Village, Paju. It is a modern history life museum that exhibits living goods and materials collected by an individual for the past 20 years. It showcases living materials that were used in Korea during the Joseon Dynasty, Japanese Occupation period, and until the 1980s. It is filled with various living props that remind visitors of their childhood days such as nickel silver pots, black and white TV, and platform desk. It is also ideal as an educational place for children to touch or put on the exhibited artifacts personally. At Exhibition Hall 1 (Modern life), visitors can see the people’s lifestyle during the 1960~70s. Visitors can have experiences of using a mortar, carrying a Korean A-frame, turning a millstone, and beating a smoothing stone. While turning a winnower, which was used to build a fire, visitors can try pounding a rice cake mallet. At Exhibition Hall 2 (Traditional life) where visitors can see the lifestyle of Korean ancestors, various living relics are being exhibited such as platform for crocks of sauces and condiments, traditional Korean socks, roughly braided bamboo hat, and bamboo bolster.

LocationPaju

TypeGallery&Museum
World Doll Museum, Heyri Art Village in Paju

The World Doll Museum introduces the life and culture of various villages around the world through their traditional dolls. It is exhibiting some 1,000 dolls from 80 countries. These dolls tell of the exotic lives of various countries and festival sites as well as culture and history. The museum is also offering lectures such as “A world cultural travel with dolls” as well as experience-oriented learning for students and general public such as making “Russian Matryoshka,” “German Nutcrackers,” “Cloth hand dolls,” and “Finger dolls.”

LocationPaju

TypeGallery&Museum
Simgokseowon - Confucian academy

It was created to honor Cho Kwang Cho, a scholar in the midst of Joseon Dynasty. Sewon is a kind of the academy and the place honoring confucianists. He hoped that the king governs the country with confucian virtues and rules. To put the auditorium in opened although it is preserved as the cultural asset make us an possibility watching inside.

LocationYongin

TypeHeritage
Mohyeon Jiseongmyo (a dolmen)

It was designated as the monument number 22 of Gyeonggi-do province in 1974. the right side on entrance of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, the Yongin campus, is placed into the west direction. Jiseongmyo is the representative type of the grave in the Bronze Age, called a dolmen. It is in the biggest size of dolmens in Gyeonggi-do and well-preserved.

LocationYongin

TypeHeritage
Seohuri Forest (Yangpyeong)

The forest is a place where visitors can take a rest while enjoying pristine nature and forest. Seohuri Forest is like a paradise for all species of trees and flowers native to the central region of the Korean Peninsula as well as for wild animals and insects. Visitors can immerse themselves into the forest from head to toe and enjoy meditation. The forest has a 30-minute course and a 1–hour course. While walking along the 1–hour course, visitors will reach a birch forest and see a guidepost stating, “Look back once here.” When they do look back, they can appreciate the natural wonder of sparkling white tree while basking in the sunlight.

LocationYangpyeong

TypeNatural Beauty
Hwaunsa (temple)

Hwaunsa placing at the end of Myeokjjosan (mountain) is the right place to cultivate our mind in the nature. Hwa means 'shing' and Un means 'cloud', sa means a temple. So the name has the meaning of 'shining temple in the clouds'. The temple has temple stay programs, and we can take educational training of Buddha. The Buddha statue wooden of the main building of the temple was designated as the intangible cultural asset number 200 of Gyeonggi-do province.

LocationYongin

TypeHeritage
Hyeono gukssa Tapbi - Seobong saji (temple site)

It was built in 1185 and designated as the National Treasure number 9. The height is 1.8 meters and the wide is 0.97 meter. The feat of Hyeono gukssa (Buddhist priest) was written on the stone. Budo is the stone containing a bone of the Buddha but it different from the pagoda. Budo is placed outside of the temple while the pagoda is set inside. Originally Tappi (a tower and a monument) is made with Budo but this Toppi remains without it.

LocationYongin

TypeHeritage
Yongin Jubuk-ri Dolmen

A dolmen is the representative grave in the period of the Bronze Age and known as the grave of the ruling class having the political or economical power. The dolmen divided into two groups, the way of a table and go board in the Korean Peninsula. Jubuk-ri dolmen is made using the former, to put the even stone on the room made by erecting four footstones.

LocationYongin

TypeHeritage
Choongryul Seowon - Yongin

Choongryul Seowon was built to honor Jeong Mongju, a faithful subject at the end of Goryeo (former nation of Joseon Dynasty). He was murdered on the Sinjukkyo bridge by Yi Bangwon (the fifth son of the Joseon Dynasty's founder Yi seonggye). The way knowing more about the history is to watch the Korea drama. Recent broadcasted 'Six Flying Dragons' provides us vivid historical information.

LocationYongin

TypeHeritage
Well-being Wild Vegetable Dishes in Yangpyeong

This restaurant is located within “Sannamul Dumehyanggi,” a wild vegetable theme park. It serves various dishes cooked with wild vegetables and herbs cultivated at the park such as gondeure (thistle), ragwort, Aster scaber, Seseleos radix, and Alpine leek. All the dishes use homemade sauce and no artificial seasoning. Wild Vegetable Bibimbap contains wild vegetables seasoned with stir-fried soybean paste sauce, not with gochujang (chili paste sauce), to provide a richer flavor. The visual of thick pancake cooked with wild vegetables but using a little amount of wheat flour will amaze many who order the dish. After a meal, visitors can tour a botanical garden as well as Hyu and Gallery Rak, including a platform for crocks of sauces and condiments in a garden-like arrangement, and can walk along the eumgil trail constructed in the mountain where wild vegetables are growing. From the observatory on marugil of eumgil, visitors can enjoy a panoramic view of Sannamul Dumehyanggi, Yangpyeong, and Gapyeong area.

LocationYangpyeong

TypeTheme Park
Myongji University Museum

Myongji University Museum has preserved and exhibited relics and materials relative to archaeology, art, folk, ect. Over 100 collections Yousanggeun presented was based on the foundation. It is placed on the sixth floor of the library in Yongin campus. We can see relics of the New Stone Age, traditional Korean medicine, various ceramic wares, paintings etc.

LocationYongin

TypeHeritage
Tomb of General Sim Dae

The tomb was designated as Gyeonggi-do Monument No.3 in 1972. Sim Dae was a hero in the period of Japanese Invasions, 1592-1598, and served and guided the king during the war. He planned to retake Hanyang, taken by Japan, but was killed by them. After the war, he got an honorable name as the civil affairs party. A grave mark(not original), a stone table and a pair of stone posts are in front of the tomb.

LocationYongin

TypeHeritage
Yangji Hyanggyo Local Confucian School-Yongin

This Hyanggyo has preserved the ancestral tablet of Hyeonyu and provided the education for the public. Now the ritual service for ancestors exists without the function while the land, servants, books was supported in Joseon Dynasty.

LocationYongin

TypeHeritage
Eobiri 3 storied Stone Pagoda

The Eobiri Stone Pagoda is located in Dongdo-sa (temple). It was designated as the Geonggi-do Tangible cultural property No. 194 and the presumed period made is the silla (former nation of the Goryeo). The square-shaped is pagoda having the 3 storied body on the single-layer base. The pagoda remained damaged since the invasion of Japan in 1592 was restored by residents. Putting submerging by reservior construction in danger in 1963, the pagoda was moved to Dongdo-sa.

LocationYongin

TypeHeritage
Five storied stone pagoda - Gongseri

Five storied stone pagoda in Gongseri was designated as the Gyeonggi cultural properties number 42 in 1983. It is a kind of Budo, contains a bone of Buddha, and preserved with the sitting statue made of stone in the village. Well-proportioned figure is attractive to visitors.

LocationYongin

TypeHeritage
Ijuguk Ganggun Gotaek - Historic House of the general

It was the house of the military subject in Joseon Dynasty and designated as the traditional structure number 3 in 1989, called as Jeongyeongchae house that time. It consists of the inner house and the small and big size of man's parts, detached building used for a reception room for male guests.

LocationYongin

TypeHeritage
Minyeonghwan

Minyeonghwan sacrificed his life for the nation resisting against Japan-Korea Treaty of 1905. The grave of Minyeonghwan was designated as the monument number 18 of Gyeonggi-do province. He left the will to the public, the diplomatic delegation, the king. Each contained to raise awareness of the matter, face the fact of the political invasion of Japan and help Joseon, to be appealed. He killed himself in his house.

LocationYongin

TypeHeritage
Cultural Heritage Museum - Yong-in

Yongin Cultural Heritage Museum was founded for preserving relics of the Old Stone Age in 2004 . With specific subjects, the exhibitons are set for learning on historic sites and relics in Yongin. Especially, on the third floor, the hall of experience study and media art space are for children that can make relics as our ancestors did. The graves made of stones are placed outside for the exhibition.

LocationYongin

TypeGallery&Museum

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Blume Museum of Contemporary Art

Museum of the World’s Musical Instruments, Heyri Art Village in Paju

Time Capsule, Heyri Art Village in Paju

World Doll Museum, Heyri Art Village in Paju

Simgokseowon - Confucian academy

Mohyeon Jiseongmyo (a dolmen)

Seohuri Forest (Yangpyeong)

Hwaunsa (temple)

Hyeono gukssa Tapbi - Seobong saji (temple site)

Yongin Jubuk-ri Dolmen

Choongryul Seowon - Yongin

Well-being Wild Vegetable Dishes in Yangpyeong

Myongji University Museum

Tomb of General Sim Dae

Yangji Hyanggyo Local Confucian School-Yongin

This Hyanggyo has preserved the ancestral tablet of Hyeonyu and provided the education for the public. Now the ritual service for ancestors exists without the function while the land, servants, books was supported in Joseon Dynasty.

Eobiri 3 storied Stone Pagoda

Five storied stone pagoda - Gongseri

Five storied stone pagoda in Gongseri was designated as the Gyeonggi cultural properties number 42 in 1983. It is a kind of Budo, contains a bone of Buddha, and preserved with the sitting statue made of stone in the village. Well-proportioned figure is attractive to visitors.

Ijuguk Ganggun Gotaek - Historic House of the general

It was the house of the military subject in Joseon Dynasty and designated as the traditional structure number 3 in 1989, called as Jeongyeongchae house that time. It consists of the inner house and the small and big size of man's parts, detached building used for a reception room for male guests.

Minyeonghwan

Cultural Heritage Museum - Yong-in