Description of Events | Korean folk village

Each season brings various experiences for enjoying tradition and folk culture in new themes.

A variety show and festival in the wild
snow-covered Joseon village

How did people live during the Joseon Era in long and cold winters?Through this event, guests can experience how people from Joseon spent the winter by participating in ice fishing and haw hunting. Take part in various activities to reinvent yourself as a hunter in the snowfield! You will forget the cold weather in the heat of the fun.

A journey in search of memories of mom and dad’s childhood which was filled with homely affections and joys!

An outdoor event projecting “A journey into the memory of the warm-hearted 1970s and 1980s which were full of fun games and yummy snacks”. Old-fashioned snacking in making dalgona (creating figures in melted sugar) and roasting sweet potatoes and chestnuts on traditional stove, and traditional practices in daily life and plays such as experiencing ondol room in a thatched-roof house, making traditional kite and wooden top, and riding a sled on ice await the participants. Look forward to a journey into memories, enjoyable for both parents and children.

A Cultural Festival Held by Figures
from the Joseon Period!

“Welcome to Joseon!” What if Joseon-period figures roam the folk village? An exotic program that is presented by distinctive Joseon-period characters who appear in old fairy tales or ancient stories. The mysterious and exciting cultural festival unfolds in time travel, as it is filled with performances allowing direct engagement from audience and specially prepared experience of the daily life in the Joseon period.

Learn how to overcome the sweltering summer heat from the old days

A special festival at the Korean Folk Village that will blow the heat away Korean Folk Village is surrounded by trees and streams on all sides, making it 3 degrees cooler than the surrounding neighborhoods. KFV invites guests to make unforgettable memories away from the heat. Learn how people in Korea used to overcome the heat through the book Soseopalsa Jeong Yak-yong.

Enjoy the world of Korean fairytales!

Extraordinary fairytales in a mysterious village! Joseon Fairytale Festival is an event that re-interprets the characters and stories in Korean fairytales through various activities and performances. Guests will experience the stories at the Korean Folk Village, and have fun while comparing the performances with the original tales. Experience and enjoy the living stories and performances at KFV, and return home with a new outlook about Korean fairytales containing the wisdom and humor or the Korean people.

※ The schedule of the events is subject to change due to weather conditions and internal reasons.

KFV’s events celebrating traditional holidays are special in that they bring light on the significance of our ancestral customs and the seasonal occasions.

Seol, the first day of the lunar year, is the leading annual holiday for the nation. From old times, people performed ancestral rites on Seol, while family and relatives got together sharing well-wishing encouragements and playing joyful games together. On Seol, KFV presents a series of events for sharing warmth with neighbors such as first day of the year gosa (well-wishing shamanistic rites), jisin balbki (treading terrain spirits), sharing fortune talisman, sharing fortune rice cakes, and fortune reading.

First Full Moon of the Lunar Year is the day for predicting good and bad things for the new year, thus serving as the biggest traditional holiday in the country. On this day with the moon shining brightest, people prayed to the moon, the symbol of the energy that banishes darkness, diseases, and disasters, for allowing a happy and affluent year. Marking the First Full Moon of the Lunar Year, KFV presents a variety of well-wishing events that reflect our ancestral customs. Traditional folk events proceeding at KFV in the original form that ensures participation of all in the family include Moon House Burning, Rites for Jangseung (Korean traditional totem pole at the village entrance), dongje (village rites), erecting sheaves of rice, Jisin balbki, and full-moon food sharing.

Dano is said to be the day of the year with maximum ‘yang’ energy, the reception of which energy was thought to help stave off all evil influences, thus leading to the various well-wishing events on the day. At KFV, several special Dano events are performed in reenacting the traditional form and the occasional customs. With various events observing the solar term such as changpo shampooing, sharing of rice cake flavored with mugwort, and making Dano fan, participants experience the traditional customs of Dano while banishing evils and wishing for a healthy summer.

Chuseok is the biggest traditional holiday for the national people. KFV presents events delivering on Chuseok sentiment such as Traditional Art Performances, Seongju gosa (rites to the genius of specific premises), harvesting and threshing, sharing traditional rice cake. We hope you will get your fill of the affluence of Chuseok through the traditional folk festival available only at KFV.

Dongji registers the longest night and the shortest day of the year, referring to the solar term between Daeseol and Sohan. As the length of day starts to get longer from Dongji, people of Korea have called it ‘the small Seol’. KFV presents events reenacting various traditional customs for the day such as Dongji patjuk (red-bean porridge) sharing, Dongji almanac sharing, and Dongji talisman sharing.

※ The schedule of the events is subject to change due to weather conditions and internal reasons.