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If you want to know about the culture and tradition of Korea then visit the Seongeup Folk Village, Jeju. The Seongeup Folk Village, Jeju, which is located at the foot of Mt. Halla, is the best preserver of ancient Korean traditions. It became designated as a Folk Village because of its vast cultural heritage.

When you visit the Seongeup Folk Village, Jeju you would find that there are various residential houses, shrines of Confucius, schools and many ancient government offices, millstones and ruins of fortresses. The other important attractions include stone statues, millstones run by horse or ox, stone monuments and various cultural assets such as folk plays, local folk crafts and shops selling local food. The village also has zelkova trees and nettle trees, which are few hundred years old. When you wander around this area, you would feel that you have gone back to the past. All these combine to maintain the ancient look of the village.

The area of Seongeup Folk Village, Jeju was the provincial capital during the Koryo period and now the area is maintained by the local government. In this village you would find about 3,000 thatched roof houses with stone and clay walls. Though the villagers enjoy all the modern amenities such as color television, telephone and a lot more yet they prefer to maintain that ancient architecture of the buildings where they stay. You would appreciate the unique architecture that you can find in the island. You would spot stone walls made of black lava rock. The streets are straight and the stone statues are the primary features of the land. Here you would also find local black haired pig and the pigsty.

Here you would also find Hyangkyo, which is an old government building and Tolharubang, which is a famous tomb. There is a famous souvenir shop also where you would find tiny harubang, key chains and other small items that the tourists love. Do not forget to buy at least one souvenir for yourself because you can nowhere else get such handicraft items which have history of more than 100 years attached to them.

These traditional architecture as well as the local crafts cannot be seen anywhere else and these make the Seongeup Folk Village, Jeju a novel experience.

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