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Asia » South Korea » Jeollabuk-do » Jeonju » Hanok Village June 1st 2013

1st Jun: Up far too early. 5 am! I managed to leave the house not long after half past and headed to the metro. Got to Suwon station, not long after six. Bought some breakfast from the shop, and sat eating that, while waiting for my train. My train left about ten past seven. I put my ear phones in and tried to sleep. The bloke next to me was a bit chatty, and I was in no mood for it. It was too early. The train journey took about three hours. I almost missed my stop as I was asleep. However the old bloke told me, it was my stop. Thank goodness! The train station in Jeonju is gorgeous, it's built in the hanok style. After asking at the tourist information office about how to ... read more
Father Baudounet
Jeongdong Church
Jeongdong Church

Asia » South Korea » Jeollabuk-do » Jeonju » Hanok Village August 29th 2012

I'll try and get some photo's up this weekend. At the moment they're uploaded on my Facebook Page. When we went to leave Langkawi we found out that we still had an extra day. We packed our bags, did the last minute things we wanted to such as parasailing, eating fantastic food, swimming in the ocean, watchinghte sunsets and made peace with the fact that our vacation was over. The morning we intended to check out the desk clerk informed us that we didn't check out until the next day. Great, I thought, I've reserved the room an extra night and we'll have to pay for it even though we'll be on a flight to Seoul in a few hours. I went and double checked my booking and much to my surprise saw that our hotel ... read more
Weathered Shop
Long Way From Home
String of Lights

Asia » South Korea » Jeollabuk-do » Jeonju » Hanok Village August 22nd 2010

Hey everyone, Eddie here again, its been a few days since the first blog entry so I'll quickly recap what's been going on since then. After we arrived at our orientation and were situated in our dorms we began attending some lectures about life in Korea and its education system. For the most part they have been interesting and informative, but I won't go into the details. We were pretty busy with lectures on Friday and Saturday (our time), but today (Sunday) we got to go on a field trip! Our field trip began with a trip to the small village in the Jeonju area called Hanok. Hanok is known for its rich Korean history and world renown food, such as Bibimbop. When we arrived in Hanok we learned about Koreas paper. Koreans have been making ... read more
Statue
Electric Box
Dorm

Asia » South Korea » Jeollabuk-do » Jeonju » Hanok Village February 21st 2010

Hanok Village and Jeonju Cultural Center Today was the most incredible day! They took us to a traditional village and a cultural center. I've seen and done so many cool things now. First we made a picture frame with a type of paper that Jeonju is famous for. Well, really we made the frame out of cardboard but covered it with beautiful paper. It was very funny because we all looked like 3rd graders trying to do crafts. One guy, Dave from London, talked about how nervous he was because he was terrible at crafts. "My art teacher came up to me on the last day of primary school and told me I was the worst artist he'd ever met in 30 years of teaching," he said. Well, we all thought he was doing ok for ... read more
Korea Orientation 031
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Korea Orientation 038

Asia » South Korea » Jeollabuk-do » Jeonju » Hanok Village September 12th 2008

Today was a most exciting day for all of us at the Hogwan. This morning we went to the Korean cultural center and Hanok Village. Most all of the children wore their traditional Korean Hanboks. When we (the foreign teachers) arrived at the school, we went on a quest for our Hanboks because we were supposed to wear them as well, however they were nowhere to be found. Later, Mrs. Ahn said that they were in storage and old and moldy, but we think they probably forgot. It was okay though, because it was pretty hot to begin with without all of the extra layers. I had asked one of the Korean teachers if she was going to wear hers today, and she said, “Oh no, I don’t have one. Too expensive!” That made it sink ... read more
Giant Pear from Pauline
Two of my Kinders and an older sister
Little boy took my glasses!

Asia » South Korea » Jeollabuk-do » Jeonju » Hanok Village August 24th 2007

It is amazing how well you can sleep on a marble floor! All the foot-weariness from the previous day's hike gone, we got up and left the jjimjilbang to find a taxi to go to Hanok Village on the outskirts of Jeonju. We had absolutely no sense of where we were so started walking in the direction we thought was correct. We eventually hailed a taxi and found we were going in the wrong direction and were miles from where we wanted to be! Hanok Village is a kind of living museum where all the builings are representative of typical Korean architecture. We spent quite a lot of time looking round what seemed to be a place used by royalty perhaps for meetings or holding religious events. There was an adjacent area with staff quarters and ... read more
Portrait of a king
Transport for the king
Guard's House




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