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Korea Democracy Tour

July 2006

Introduction

It is the Korean people's struggle to realize freedom from foreign influences and

democracy from military dictatorship that saved the nation in recent history. But, their

ardent wish was met with coldblooded power of the gun and sword by a longterm

dictatorship, and the selfexistence of the nation got ignored by foreign powers.

To resist dictatorship and to restore our true sovereign authority from external powers,

a great number of our sons and daughters had to willingly sacrifice their own lives onto

the altar of our motherland. Families "still alive" who were simple citizens had to come

out from their schools, factories, and streets cherishing empty echoes of their lost ones.

To continue the fight of their beloved for the independence of this land,

democratization, reunification of two Koreas, and labor equality, they stood against

harsh dictatorship and cruel suppression.

Now, efforts to do so became our lives because we couldn't simply bury our beloved

(own flesh and blood) deep in our hearts. We had to live such a life to revive them to

life, in the form of struggles to reach the great cause. Therefore, our lost flesh and blood

still existed inside us.

It results in adding a little help to the gradual development of social democracy, whichconfirms the justice of their sublime death that we wish to fulfill.

We will continue to make our best efforts, as we have demonstrated resolute volition of

holding fights during the 422 days onthestreet demonstration in 1988 as well as the 422

days fight of 1998, to realize the society our flesh and blood pictured lastly in which

true democracy prevails.

We know that this is the only way we must go.

We, the bereaved families, declare our new departure to restore the honorable

reputation of the deceased and hereby establish justice of their democratization

movements in front of history.

Yugahyeop's Background and History

Bereaved families who resisted Fascistic rules of military dictatorship gathered in the

early 80's with those families whose members were incarcerated and tortured by the

authorities in the process of the democratization movement, resulting thus to the

development and expansion of movements.

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As labor and student democratic movements spread explosively against the military

regime, many democracy persons were imprisoned and democratization exercise

families and the patriots' bereaved families gathered.

At that time, chairman of 7 humanity and justices cooperation were elected.

Jeontaeileomeo came under private house attack on both sides of the agreement chapter

which democracy patriots' bereaved family shared. Under Jeontaeileomeo's leadership,

bereaved families gathered and formed mutual sympathy and cooperation to meet

national democratization exercise patriots, and to stabilize meetings and activities that

became that nourished the soil for sowing democratization.

Patriots' bereaved families who died by democratization exercise in early '86 in

connection with incarnation of the Buddha and investment trust, torture of government

power and oppression majority, gathered. To keep sublime the struggle for

democratization of patriots which resisted military regime, farmer, a student and

bereaved families' negotiation became the straw mat of democratization exercise and

together they encouraged each other and served Bodeumgi.

Collect patriots' children who resisted with their whole body to cure all kinds of

diseases of military regime through participation of bereaved families of over 10 cotton

cloths on August 12, 86, parents, brothers inherited and developed patriots' exalted aims

and resolved to do Hamkke, from democratization practice family exercise conferenceseparation democratization exercise bereaved family conference formally started.

Change and activity of Yugahyeop name

Hamkke and Seuseus of Yugahyeop became the founding name of democratization

exercise of bereaved family in a conference in August, 86 after innumerable fighting.

Do so that may internationalize problem of human rights of this land through military

interrogative fighting, incarnation of the Buddha, likeminded persons' undoing fighting

which engage and unfolded innumerable holding a castle fightings for human rights

height had guided international regiment.

With interrogative bereaved family conference (president love quantity) starting on

October 17, 88, tried to form national Isyuhwa and National Assembly discussion

because do interrogative real situation searching examination special skill holding a

castle inrush (88 . 10 . 17 89 . 2 . 27 . During 135 days). While near bereaved family

progresses holding a castle and attempt National Assembly entry in after this 35 people,

power was hauled. Many members through Unified Government Building holding a

castle and judicial struggle etc. are hauled and are detained or restrict. Bakseonyeong,

Jeongyeongwan mater families sentenced imprisonment of August.

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Scour 4 July, 91 and the first public trial for river mirror stand homicide panoramic

photograph. To drive by court warm winter coldheartedness flag 'Gangminjo' Iosun

Oyeongja member encounters preparations action and 7 day finally Bakjeonggi

member, Gangminjo member restricted 12 day.

Coldheartedness flag on October 14 Release by Gangminjo member pronouncement

Gongpaneseobakjeonggi member Jingyeok1nyeon respite 2 years, Gangminjo member

sentenced penal servitude 1 year imprisonment. Formed nation democracy patriot rehab

interrogative real situation searching examination special law enactment tiger people

propulsion committee with the democracy organizations on August 3, 98 and rush in

National Assembly front holding a castle for special law enactment.

Tried to include national democracy patriot's bereaved family to be true to the name

changing name to whole country democratization exercise bereaved family conference

in 99, and pass () Government Administration and Local Autonomy Committee on

December 17 through holding a castle of clause and the various organizations and

member of the National Assembly interview andInterrogative real situation searching

examination special bill annals of legislation law committee passage finally 28 day

at Assembly plenary session two draft of a proposed law establish.

When 2 law is established, arranged 422 day's National Assembly front holding a

castle on December 30. Is changing name to whole nation beef or pork hock democracybereaved family conference in 2000 through after this interior full equipment and arrive

at present.

Yugahyeop's composition and activity Yugahyeop are propelling incorporation being

consisted of Sudogwonjihoe, Yeongnamjihoe, Honamjihoe, question legs and arms

inning present, and Sudogwonjihoe becomes center and is unfolding law revision

fighting with democratization exercise mental world victory people tears and

generations.

Is collecting and pigeonhole datas for democratization exercise persons concerned

rehab in oil prise gorge dimension. Also, patriots having guided whole country nation

democracy patriot combination cherishing the memory of a deceased person emperor

for the first time in 1990 with Chumohaneunchumodanchedeul cherishing the memory

of a deceased person business tears and generations meeting form .

Is progressing cherishing the memory of a deceased person business done every year

until present in June making out cherishing the memory of a deceased person weekly by

1 week in a day. Because being known that Yugahyeop's office is Hanulsam to one

meeting without student patriot, labor patriot, farmer patriots' delimit, is preparing

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reissue again because is being active, and is discontinued for a moment while publish

Hanulsam Sosikji.

Yugahyeop's homepage is accompanying data and painted picture of a person of ten

dividing in fours here being www.ugh.or.kr, and "Will live and meet" is selling patriot

data books.

95 labor patriots, 84 student patriots in Yugahyeop, though is proud of and longtimer

67 course interrogative(duplicate) 16 people, is keeping data of 240 person all and is

holding combination cherishing the memory of a deceased person ancestor memorial

service in whole country cherishing the memory of a deceased person several period to

that wish to be June with each cherishing the memory of a deceased person

organizations.

Where to make contact?

Seoul Jongroku Changshin 2dong 65130 3/1

Telephone (+82) 2 764 1684 FAX. (+82) 2 743 2845

Panmunjom

History

The place where the truce talks were held during the Korean War was originally

located at 1km north of the present place. It consisted of four straw roofed houses, two

temporary buildings used as the meeting place, and three temporary barracks at that

time.

The name, Panmunjom, originated from the story that when a place for the truce talks

was moved to this place, they marked the name of Panmunjom which was a small

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store(Jom) located near the place for the truce talks in order for the representatives of

China to find the place easily. After the 1,076 times of the truce talks for 2 years and 19

days since a preparation meeting started, at last the agreement was signed among U.N.

forces, North Korean Army, and Chinese Army on 27 July 1953.

The Panmunjom is located at the west end from the 155 miles truce line and has

proved the partition of a nation. This area is located away from 62km northwest of

Seoul and 215km south of Pyongyang that is capital city of North Korea. Officially this

area is called as the 'Joint Security Area', and is a special area that is out of

administrative control of South and North Korea

Introduction

Panmunjom is only the heritage of the Cold War. But it is the place based on the co-

existence of one Korea by cooperation with South and North Korea. It would be the

center of the world if the internet of South and North Korea worked together in every

fields till there were no limits of the Korean peninsula. If, by Panmunjom were a web

site, and South Korea frequently trades with North Korea in the fields of man power and

products, it is possible to recover national same quality on the bases of it. South and

North Korea are not two but one. They are one nation. If they met many times, they

could establish a security blanket over themselves. And then, the mind set of"Unification" could take effect.

The Farmers revolution sparked by the Gobu Farmers' uprising in January 1894

The Farmers revolution sparked by the Gobu Farmers' uprising in January 1894 was

the first ever farmers' revolution on a nationwide scale in Korea's history, started by the

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waking up of the public awareness. It was an opportunity to open a modern society in

Korea.

The first farmers' uprising was an antifeudal resistance movement searching for the

freedom and people's rights while the second one was an antiforeign movement for the

national independence and selfreliance to drive the Japanese army out of the Korean

Peninsular. The Farmers' Revolution was launched to overturn the feudal system of the

society, which was based on the domination and subordination relationship and to build

a new social and economic system based on the principles of equality, freedom and self-

rule. Even though the revolution failed by the combined power of the conservative

noblemen class and the foreign force, its spirit has handed down to SavethePoor

movement and Yeonghakdang movement, farther down to the loyal troop

uprising/March 1 demonstration against the Japanese rule.

The Farmers' riot which started in Gobu sparked by the despotic ruling by the Gobu

governor Jo ByeongGap, escalated into the Farmers' Uprising under the slogan of

rescuing people from oppression and protecting the country. The movement was led by

Jeon BongJun and Son WhaJung in 1894. Gobu was a place of the largest rice

production and a concentration center for agricultural products.

In addition, it had rich seafood since it was located near the western coast.

This means that feudal exploitation and economic evasion by Japan was more severehere than any other place in Joseon.

Jo ByeongGap, Gobu Governor at that time, exploited people using various methods in

addition to the widespread corrupt practices of utilizing three basic systems. One

example was the water tax that he collected on the excuse of building a Manseokbo. But

as the crop harvest was bad in 1893, over 40 farmers went to the Gobu Office to ask for

the reduction of water tax, Jo ByeongGap arrested some of the leaders for the reason

that they triggered goodnatured people to rise in an uprising.

People were just panicstricken by this and 20 or more including Jeon BongJun

gathered at the house of Song JunHo(Juksan Village at Singjunri, Gobu) and drew up a

plan to execute the corrupt officials including the Gobu Governor, Jo ByeongGap,

occupy Jeonju Castle and then move forward to Hanyang. But this plan was not

executed as planned because Jo ByeongGap, the first target of their attack, was

transferred to Iksan on November 30.

Then about five people in a row were appointed as the next Gobu Governor but all of

them failed to take the position due to the manipulation by Jo ByeongGap who wanted

to be transferred back to Gobu.

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At last on January 9, 1894, Jo ByeongGap was appointed to Gogu Governor again to

bring misfortune himself. GAT night of January 10, 1894, farmers gathered at Yedong

Village led by the farmer's folk bands. After a long speech, ordered advance to the

Gobu Office by dividing the farmers into two groups. With the bamboo spears that they

made, farmers occupied Gobu Office on January 11. But it was after Jo ByeongGap

disappeared already. Thousands of angry farmers broke the prison to set innocent people

free and opened the warehouse to get all the grain distributed to the nearby residents.

They demolished Manseokbo and took up a position around the Yedong Village,

building mud walls at Baeksan and appointing a newly governor, Park WonMyeong,

who took an aggressive appeasement policy and asked the farmers to disband promising

to correct the wrongdoings. Since farmers felt uneasy about the escalating uprisings,

Jeon BongJun was forced to order disbanding even though he also wanted to occupy the

rice warehouse at Hamyeol.

It was at that time that An YongTae, a government official, came into Gobu with over

800 policemen, arrested innocent farmers and plundered everything. This earned bitter

grudge from the farmers and jeon BongJun who went to Mujang to organize his groups

again by persuading Son WhaJung who had the greatest force of Donghak at that time.

But the uprising was crushed by the intervention of the Japanese force. This area was

promoted to Jeongeupgun in 1897 and consolidated as part of Gobugun and Taeingun.When the independent movement started on March 1, 1919, demonstration calling for

liberation from the Japanese rule continued to spread into every corner of the country.

So by May of that year, 13 demonstrations were held in total.


The Association for Succeeding to Kabo Peasant Revolution

Jeonbook Jeong Eup Yeonjidong 396

Telephone (+82) 63 533 9182 FAX. (+82) 63 537 2944

Website : www.donghak.or.kr

Tongyeong International Music Festival(TIMF)

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TIMF's Background

Tongyeong has the honor of providing a warm, beautiful and cheerful home for

festivities held in the honor of its extraordinarily talented son, a worldrenowned

composer Isang Yun. The city, however, is not only a proud homeland to Isang Yun, but

also a paradise its dwellers can take pride in. For one thing, its worldclass marina

attracts more boat enthusiasts than any other cities in Korea. With a big lodging

capacity, it is a busy destination for many vacationers during the summer. The

Tongyeong International Music Festival takes Tongyeong to greater heights as a world-

class music city. The music of Isang Yun was sadly confined to some chorus before May1999 when private groups put up the Tongyeong Cultural Foundation and the

International Isang Yun Society.

The projects stirred interest waves in the region so great that news about them soon

spread nationwide, and as a result, even the Kumho Cultural Foundation and The

Korean Culture and Arts Foundation started receiving support for its cultural exchange

programs. In addition to the endorsement of the local and central governments, the

GoetheInstitut of Germany now shows enthusiasm for the Tongyeong International

Music Festival, while the Masan MBC has always pledged its support by providing

media promotion and assisting in the production of musical contents. With all these

financial and administrative elements in place, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and

the Gyeongsangnamdo Province join hands in offering the event to Korea and the

world. This year, the Festival will have a grand opening with a concert opera,

Geisterliebe composed by Isang Yun. Other major artists appearing in the program

include the New York Philharmonic, the State Symphony Capella of Russia, Mischa

Maisky & Haesun Paik, Chung Trio, Ahn Trio and many others. A number of Korean

and foreign public figures, journalists and media coverage teams also plan to visit

Tongyeong to witness this year's event.

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Although Tongyeong is already a favored tourist attraction in the southern rim of the

Korean peninsula, the TIMF provides the city with a terrific opportunity to grow as the

center for musical activities in the East Asia in the twentyfirst century, just as movie

festivals have done for the city of Pusan and art festivals for Gwangju. Through the

festival the city will further benefit from cultural exchange with other regions of the

world and at the same time promote its tourist attractions, and ultimately make itself a

worldclass music city.

Tongyeong

1. Tongyeong City is a suburban area in the southeast of Gyeongsangnamdo. It covers

the central and the southern parts of the Goseong peninsula with its 151 islands, 43 of

which are inhabited and 108 are uninhabited. The towns of Dosan and Gwangdo in the

north adjoin the mainland while Geoje City and the sea border the eastern side. The

west of the city faces Namhae County and the sea as the south looks out to the open sea.

2. Mathematical position

Some of the major cities in the world on the same latitude as Tongyeong are Osaka in

Japan, Kaipeng in China, Los Angeles in America, and Tripoli in Lebanon.

3. Geographical position

The isletdotted city of Tongyeong lies in the southwestern end of the Goseong

peninsula.Most of its land is covered with hills and mountains, making agriculture an unattractive

industry. In spite of this, Tongyeong tries to produce its own share of crops by practicing

dry field farming in the sloping hills.

Fishing, on the other hand, is a more lucrative business. The warm current of the East

Sea lends moderate temperature to the clean waters of its jagged coast where bountiful

harvests of fish and other marine products bless local fishermen. Tongyeong's fishing

industry, developed and improved over hundreds of years, is one of the most

progressive in Korea. The city is in fact called the center of the Korean fishing industry.

4. Climate

All throughout the year, Tongyeong has an oceanic climate that is largely affected by

the warm current of the East Sea. A part of the black current, one of the biggest streams

of warm current in the world, runs through the Tongyeong seas and flows towards the

East sea. Thanks to the black current, Tongyeong has the highest temperature in the

inland of Korea which has an annual average temperature of 14 . The city also enjoys

the lowest annual average temperature difference between the hottest and the coldest

months. The average temperature in the coldest month of January is about 2.5 while

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that in the hottest month of August is 2526 . The daily temperature range in

Tongyeong coasts is always higher than that in the sea.


Seoul Address : 2FL. Seocho Shinwha BD., 145119, Seocho 3 Dong, Seocho Gu,

Seoul, Korea (137867)

Telephone : 82234748315 Fax : 82234748318

Tongyeong Address : Festival House, 28 Dchoen Dong, Tongyeong, Gyeongnam,

Korea(650110)

Telephone : (+82) 55 6545 2137, Fax :(+82) 55 650 4961, Email : [email protected]

Website : www.timf.org

ISANG YUN

A composer cannot view the world in which he lives with indifference. Human

suffering, oppression, injustice... all that comes to me in my thoughts. Where there is

pain, where there is injustice, I want to have a say in it through my music." Isang Yun,

1983

Isang Yun's oeuvre rests upon the flexible, vibrant tone of his native country's

traditional music. Yet in the integration of dodecaphony and "developing variation" into

his own "maintone technique", Yun's music is also rooted in the European tradition. His

composing manner blends eastern and western elements into a unique personal style,

into the art of gliding transition in the spirit of Tao.

Isang Yun was born on September 17, 1917 near the southeastern seaport Tongyeong,

at a time when the Korean peninsula was under Japanese occupation. Yun took part in

the resistance against Japan, and in 1943, he was imprisoned and tortured. After

receiving the Seoul City Culture Award in 1955, he was able to study in Paris and Berlin

from 1956 to 1959. In Berlin he studied with former Schonbergdisciple Josef Rufer,

learning how to compose 'with twelve tones related only to one another'. From

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Germany, Yun was able to establish contact with and was a part of the international

avantgarde.

His Buddhistic oratorio Om mani padme hum met with broad resonance in 1965; the

premiere of the orchestral Reak at the Donaueschingen Festival in 1966 lead to his

international breakthrough. In 1967 Yun was abducted form Berlin to Seoul by the

Korean secret police, and was tortured and charged with high treason. In a political

show trial he was sentenced to life imprisonment in the first instance, but released in

1969 after international protests. In 1971 he became a German citizen. Yun taught

composition at the Hochschule der Kunste Berlin from 1970 to 1985, from 1974 on as a

full professor. His oeuvre includes more than a hundred works, among them four operas

and a number of instrumental concertos. In the 1980s he composed a series of five

major, interrelated symphonies; during that period Yun also developed a new tone in his

chamber works, which are characterized by the striving for harmony and peace. At the

same time, reconciliation on the Korean peninsula was his political goal.

Isang Yun died on November 3, 1995 in Berlin, and was interred in a grave of honor

provided by the City Senate. He was a member of the Hamburg and Berlin Academies

of the Arts and of the European Academy of the Arts and Sciences in Salzburg, an

honorary member of the International Society of Contemporary Music. He also held an

honorary doctorate from the University of Tubingen, and was the recipient of theGoethe Medal of the Goethe Institute in Munich and the Distinguished Service Cross of

the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Yosu Community Research Institute

Introduction

On June 1, 1995, Yosu Community Research Institute has launched as a YosuYocheon

Community Research Institute, preparing of a new domestic political structure in early

1990s.

On November 11, 1997, the name of institute was changed onto "Yosu community

Research Institute" by the integration of Yosu administrative district and then

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institutewas approved a corporation aggregate officially by the Ministry of Government

Administration and Home Affairs.

The institute is a pure civil research body that proposes an alternative to policy for a

reformation and development of Yosu city for the 21stcentury. To develop the

community, many people put together who love Yosu city such as professors, teachers,

social reformers, intellectuals and various experts.

The institute is a human social science research institute, which is mainly researching

into the regional history including YeoSun uprising, all kinds of social survey and index

professionally. Therefore, the institute has founded on driving force behind the

academic research and regional social movement by offering better policies based on

the scientific research.

History

1995. 06. 01 : Foundation of YosuYocheon Community Research Institute

1997. 03. 07 : Approval of YosuYocheon Community Research Institute as Corporation

Aggregate.

1997. 11. 01 : Chang of name as " Yesu Community Research Institute"

2005. 02. 02 : Launch of 7th the board (Chief director : Kim Junok)

Main events

Factfinding & reexamining activities of YeoSun uprising : enaction special act,

academic pilgrimage, and memorial service for the victim

Social research activities on pending question & public opinion poll of Yosu,

Suncheon, and Gwangyang Area.

Local history & culture activities : reexamining local history (from ancient tines

modern ages), preservation & excavation of relics


223, 3rd floor YeoseDong, Yosu City, Jeonnam Province, Korea.

Phone (061) 651 1530, Fax (061) 654 7749

Email : [email protected]

YeoSun Uprising

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At night On October 19, 1948, the 14th foot regiment of the National Defense Guard

the former Korean Army, stationed in Yeosu, disobeyed to the order of the government

to move to Jeju to suppress people's uprising there. A few noncommissioned officers

made the Lee Sungman government, which was established just before two months

before, greatly astonished by agitation their colleagues by revolting against the

government. The rebel army occupied the near city, Suncheon, on Oct. 20. The uprising

spread to the east areas of Jeonnam Province very quickly. However, the government

army immediately reacted to this. Suppressing the rebel army in Suncheon on Oct 23,

they recaptured Yeosu on Oct. 27.Prime movers and most of leftwingers ran away to the

neighboring mountains like Jiri, and continued to fight against the government army

until the end of Korean War.

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Much evidence demonstrated that U.S. Army was involved in suppressing the riot. The

U.S. Korean Military Advisory Group held actual command of the Korean Army when

the Korean Army put down the riot. It is of no doubt that the insurrection might not be

so quickly repressed without the support and command of U.S. Army.

So many innocent civilians were killed without trial at the school playgrounds or on

the near hills. Almost ten thousand were massacred. Their corpses were abandoned here

and there. Successive military governments have prohibited anyone during the past 50

years even to ask about who died, who killed, and why they have to be killed.

The YosuSuncheon uprising was a disaster to the regional community. When the 14th

regiment came in, the rightwingers, police, and their families were killed by the leftists.

When the government army and police recovered their control of this area and hunted

down the leftists and their collaborators, many people were cruelly executed. People

were torn apart due to suspicion and hatred. The democratic social movement has been

completely cut out. Such barbarous days gave rise to a more serious result on the

national basis. Of all things, the Yeosusuncheon Uprising provided the Lee government

and its military successors with the slogan of antiCommunism, and made it possible for

their brutal dictatorships to be prolonged.

Boseong Green Tea Farm

Daehan Dawon Sightseeing Farm is the most unique and the oldest tea garden in Korea.

Historically Boseong is well known for tea since it is surrounded by the South Sea and

enjoys mild temperatures and low humidity. Since opened in 1957, the tea garden

produces tea is the oldest and the second largest and the taste of tea is excellent.

The farm on a scale of 0.3 million square meter offers a fantastic view of the South Sea.

The farms entrance has a mysterious picture with cryptomeria. Nowadays, many tourists

flock to the farm to enjoy healthy recreation with fresh air.

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Address : #1291 Bongsan-ri Boseong-eup Boseong-gun

Representative : Jang Yeongsup

Phone : (061) 8522593

Transportation

- 8km trip from Hoecheon to Boseong-eup (Takes 10min)

- Nonstop or Local bus to Boseong Terminal

Features

1.5 million square meter tea garden with fantastic scenery

Family facilities : swimming pool, tennis court, mountain climbing course,

accommodations, tea house

Sightseeing Links : Ungchi Mt. Jeam, Yulpo Beach, Green tea bath

Local food : Noku, Nokdon, Galbi-jjim, Gom soup

Facilities : Hotel, Restaurant, Swimming pool, Tennis Court, Tea house

The Naganeubseong(Castle) Folk Village

The village was in the territory of Mahan in the Samhan era, and the site of Pajiseong

(Paji Casle) during the Baekje Dynasty. The village site of Nagan-gun in the Joseondynasty still remains just as it was hundreds of years ago. The site has been designated

as the historical site No. 302.

Sand walls were built to guard the village from the Japanese army in 1397, and they

were rebuilt in stone 300 years later. The 1.41km long and 4m high stone wall still

stands firmly today, surrounding three villages. The folk village of 108 households

within the stone walls, is a living guide to the folklore and history of our ancestors.

The village is not just a display as those of Yongin and Jeju, and also is not a noble

village like that in Andong. In this village you can experience the real life of the

common people. Eubseong folk village of 68 thousand pyeong, is located 22km West of

Suncheon. The village is filled with a friendly atmosphere. The small cottages are built

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in the southern style with low stone hedges covered with pumpkin vine. Memories of

your childhood days will return.

Nakanubsung folk village

Area: 67,490 pyeong. (41,018 pyeong within the walls, 26,472 pyeong outside).

Population and number of households : 108 households(78 households within the

walls, 30 households outside), population of 279.

Cultural assets : A 1,410m long wall and village, monument house of General Ym

Gyeong Eob, folk material 9 houses

Unju Temple

Located in 26km southwest of Hwasun-eup. It stands at the east of Cheontaesan;

Gaecheonsa Temple at the west. It is believed that Unjusa and thousand Buddhas and

sarira stupas were built in the end of the Unified Silla Period by monk Doseon.

According to topology, he thought this temple needed a sail and shipmaster because it

shaped like a ship. He, therefore, built thousand Buddhas and sarira stupas. The name of

'Thousand Buddhas and Thousand sarira stupas' originated from it.

Unfortunately, there are no written records proving it but

. We can only know the origin of existing stone

Buddhas and sarira stupas from this book.

A number of stone Buddhas and sarira stupas inside the temple are not elaborate, even

rough. It is estimated that they were created in mid Goryeo Dynasty, 12C, over a long

time. Historic site No. 312. Excavated four times, since 1984. Stone shrine for Buddha

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dismantled and was restored, a multi-story round sarira stupa was repaired, and Ilju

Gate and Bojegak were newly constructed. The road to the lying Buddha also was taken

for in 1997.

21 stone sarira stupas and 93 stone Buddhas are preserved now.

Nine-story Stone sarira stupa : It is said that the shape of the temple was like ship and

nine-story stone sarira stupa played a role of sail. The highest sarira stupa in Unjusa.

The flower pattern on its side is very unique.

Multi-story Round Stone sarira stupa : It is a round-shaped sarira stupa from bottom to

top. It produces some curiosity of how many stories it were first. It is also well-known

as Yeonhwa sarira stupa or Deuk sarira stupa. Treasure No. 789.

Lying Buddha : It is said that the monk Doseon planned to erect thousand Buddhas and

sarira stupas in a day to open the new world, but when work nearly finished a young

monk who did not want to work shouted "cackle" as he was a hen. Because stone

workers who heard it thought it dawned, they went up to the ski and this Buddha,

consequently, became lying. It is believed that if it stands, this place will becomeKorea's capital.

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