Korean Folk Village (민속촌, people.common.village) is an open-air folk museum in Yongin, near Suwon, about 40 km south of Seoul. It is a massive complex of over 260 traditional Korean buildings from the Joseon Dynasty, spread over 243 acres. Here, employees work in the traditional ways of a Korean village. The villagers tend barley fields, make their own soybean paste for marketing, and even fasion their own hand tools, which are available for purchase in the workshop where they are made. You can watch a royal wedding ceremony in a yangban's mansion, or look around the commoner's houses. There are regular performances of traditional entertainment, such as farmer's music and dance, tightrope stunts, acrobatics and archery on horesback, and gymnatics on a kind of seesaw-trampoline hybrid. Visitors can get a horseback ride, be led around in a donkey cart, or take a ride on a ferryboat. There is also a dubiously traditional haunted house.
Attached to the Folk Village is a decidedly modern amusement park, including a roller-coaster, bumper cars, a viking ship ride, a shooting gallery, and a video arcade, among other things.
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The museum is open from 9:00 to 6:30 in the summer, and 9:00 to 5:00 in the winter. These hours are extended by 30 minutes on Sundays and holidays.
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Regular Admission
Adults: 11,000
Teens/Seniors: 8,000
Children: 7,000
Folk Museum (in addition to regular admission)
Adults: 3,000
Teens/Seniors: 2,500
Children 2,000
Haunted House (in addition to regular admission)
Adults: 2,500
Teens/Seniors: 2,000
Children: 1,500
All-access
There is also an all-access pass which gets you into everything above, and unlimited rides at the amusement park. This pass may or may not cost 16,000.
There are discounts available for groups and disabled people.
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shuttle bus.
Korean Folk Village
