Food Festival at the Folk Village

Welcome to Nagan Folk Village!

 About a week before we left Korea, we finally made it to our first folk village.  Nagan Folk Village is quite close to Suncheon, only about a 30 minute drive away, and we were going at an excellent time- during the annual 3 day food festival :) 

Mashing up some rice for duk

 

So not only did they have the traditional houses to look at, traditional games to play, and "guards" in costume, they also had lots of stands where you could sample and/or buy some classic Korean food.  We went with 5 of our students, who explained to us some of what we were seeing.  Blade even showed us how to make duk- Korean rice cake.  

 












We wandered around the village for a while, admired a tightrope walker, had some traditional tea, barley bread, and duk, petted some ponies, played a game, and walked the ancient wall before finally heading to dinner.  We went to a local favorite from some tasty boribap - mixed vegetables and chili paste with barley.  A nice outing with our students!