[2025 Seogwipo Attraction] Travel Guide for Seongeup Folk Village (Updated Mar)

Seongeup Folk Village, located at the foot of Halla Mountain, is a folk village that fully preserves Korean traditions. There are many cultural heritages here, and the original appearance of the ancient village is well preserved, so it is designated as a folk village and protected by the government. When you are in the folk village, you can feel the authentic Jeju style as if you have traveled back to ancient times. Here you can see the seemingly sparsely piled windshield walls (black lava stones), the straight and curved "Olai" (narrow alleys) built to prevent the wind from entering the back room directly, and The Dolharubang, the symbol of Jeju Island. Most of the group tourists come here to visit, so the folk custom village is equipped with Chinese-speaking staff for each team, usually an aunt, who will lead everyone to visit the entire folk custom village. As soon as you enter the Folk Village, the first thing that strikes your eye is the "Land of the Land" of Jeju Island, which is made of volcanic stones. It is said that the grandfather who touches the stone has different meanings in various places. If you want peach blossoms, you can touch the top of the head, if you want to get promoted, touch your stomach, if you want to give birth to a son, you can touch your nose, if you want to have a daughter, you can touch your mouth, if you want twins, you can touch your eyes, and you must touch your shoulders. As a more interesting experience, you might as well do as the locals do before you go in. The houses in the folk villages do not have doors, nor can they be locked, but a few wooden sticks are placed at the gates of each house. A wooden stick represents the owner working in the field, and there are children at home, shout a few times or come back after a while. The two sticks indicate that the master is working outside and will not come home until evening. The three sticks represent that the master is away. The four sticks represent the widow's house. If there are no sticks across the door, it means there is someone at home. After that, we started to tour the interior of the Folk Village, which still retains tangible cultural heritage such as folk houses, rural schools, ancient government offices, mills, and steles. At the same time, if you have enough time, you can also experience the following intangible cultural heritages such as making commoner clothes, weaving ropes, making cakes, brewing wine, and folk games. The hundreds of years old zelkova and hackberry trees in the middle of the village have been designated as natural conservation objects. In addition, the kitchen scene in "Dae Jang Geum" was filmed here. According to the aunt, Chengyi Folk Village used to be a communist society, and the village's economic income was distributed collectively. Men in the village usually went out to do some physical work, such as beekeeping and bee-keeping, while women worked in the village. . Generally, the fruits of their labor like honey and Schisandra water are sold to tourists. The money earned by the collective will be distributed uniformly before the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Chinese New Year. The more you work, the more you get, which is very similar to the work-point system in China. The village used to practice polygamy, and a man could even have five wives. After the tour, the aunts will start to sell local specialties, horse bone meal, horse oil and honey. The honey here can precipitate the shape of a beehive, and the schisandra is very popular with children. The price is not cheap, but it is generally not forced to buy. If you like it, you can buy some as a souvenir. In addition, there are still several black-haired pigs in captivity in the village so far. This kind of pork tastes very good and is much smaller than ordinary pigs. Not far from the folk village, there is a restaurant where you can taste roasted black pork. After visiting, you may as well have a delicious lunch there.