[Marketoon] Pyeongchang Olympic Market

[Enjoy KOREA] Sancheoneo(Mount Trout) Festival

[Enjoy KOREA] 

Sancheoneo(Mount Trout) Festival

Real winter covered with snow and ice in every January in the whole area of Hwacheon, Gangwon-do that is famous for clean region where Sancheoneo and otter live.

Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival is opened in every January under the slogan of “Unfrozen Hearts, Unforgettable Memories” at Hwacheon that has geographical feature of the fastest ice freezing in the country because of cold valley wind and clean water.

This is unique theme experience festival full with good shows and 40 or about various experience programs such as ice sledding, snow sledding, snow sculpture and ice soccer, Sancheoneo experience programs combined with the image of Hwacheon that has clean natural environment with the first grade clean water in Bukhangang (river) for catching Sancheoneo by hand, Sancheoneo fishing on the ice to catch the fish easily and enjoy the fishing by everybody, breaking the ice with 40cm thickness and above and looking at Sancheoneo in the deep water for your exciting play available for experiencing at Hwacheon only and heart-warm memory in winter. 

[Talk Talk Market] Hwacheon Market

[Talk Talk Market] 

Hwacheon Market

Hwacheon is famous for Sancheonoe and Jjokbae Water Festival. Recently, after an popular TV show introduced Korean famous author, Oisoo Lee, lives in Hwachoen, it is quickly gaining popularity among travelers. If you visit Hwacheon, we recommend you to visit attractive Hwacheon Market, too :-)

The characteristic of the market is the youth. Unlike other markets, the main target of this market is young soldiers because lots of them live in Hwacheon.

This is the inside of a restaurant. You can see many soldiers have meals! If you visit here from Friday to Sunday, you can see the market crowded with soldiers.

Also, many travelers visit the market because there is a terminal bus station near the market! If someone participates in one of festivals in Hwacheon, he or she would get a gift card of 50% admissions he already paid. The gift card can be used in restaurants or markets!

The market has lots of agricultural products, foods, cultures and flea markets. Especially, I recommend you to eat buckwheat pancakes and Tadpole noodles :-)

[Enjoy Korea] Bakdaljae

[Enjoy Korea] 

Bakdaljae

There are some popular and old songs that everyone knows in Korea. Among them, ‘Bakdaljae crying over’ is related to the place where I’ll introduce today.

When you hear this song, you might feel so sad. Do you know the song has a sad story?

Long ago, a countryside scholar named Bakdal was on the way to Seoul to take Gwageo, the highest-level state examination to recruit ranking officials. Because it takes several days to get Seoul, he decided to stay in a village in Jecheon. He wanted to stay a farmer’s house and the farmer has beautiful daughter named Geumbong. As you can guess, Bakdal and Geumbong fell in love each other. However, he couldn’t help leaving the village to take a test.

He arrived Seoul, but he couldn’t concentrate his study and examination because of her. So, he failed the examination. So did Geumbong. She waited and prayed for him at the hill all day long, and as time went by, eventually she got tired of wating and died. She had already died when Bakdal returned to the village. He lost his composure and cried at the hill where she had waited for him. Suddenly, he saw the phantom of her and hugged. He died there, too. Because the place he stood was cliff. After that, people called this hill ‘Bakdaljae’.

Visit here, and you can feel the heartrending love of them. 

[Enjoy Korea] Cheongpung lakeside

[Enjoy Korea] 

Cheongpung lakeside

Cheongpung lake was made by construction of Chungju dam in 1985. With the building of a dam, lots of villages in Jecheon, Dannyang and Chungju was submerged. Among them, villages in Jecheon take up more than 50%.

Cheongpung lake is so beautiful that lots of people call it ‘inland ocean’. Jecheon has become hot spot on the basis of superb natural landscape where tourists want to visit. It makes visitors peaceful.

Cheongpung Cultural Properities Complex is a rteconstruction of Cheongpung, a village that became submerged after the construction of Chungju Dam located above Chungju Lake. Especailly, SBS Jecheon Setting, co-located on the site of Cheongpung Cultural Properties Complex, recreates a historical Korean folk village used in the SBS produced TV mini-series “Daemang” and “Jang Gilsan”. Several other historical SBS TV productions were filmed on this set as well.

Do you want to enjoy both natural and traditional place?

Visit Jechoen, and you’ll go for the effect of killing two birds with a stone.