Jeonju hanok village, Great experience of Korean traditional clothes

History of Jeonju

 

The origin of Jeonju hanok village traces back to 1905 the Eulsa Treaty when numbers of Japanese people flooded into Jeonju. They first settled in outskirts of West Gate, nearby Jeonju stream side now in Daga-dong where low-class people and merchants resided. Class hierarchy was delineated by the boundary between internal castle and outside castle.

ortress served as a mark for class distinction. Yet as the right gate of the fortress save south gate was demolished for grain transportation around 1911, Jeonju side fortress was retraced back to the past. Due to this policy, Japanese were allowed to come into the castle. As a result, Jeonju street appeared and further market emerged as they, most of whom engaged in trade, flooded into the center of the fortress. They dominated the biggest portion of marketplaces in Jeonju, which continued until the 1945 emancipation. 

Great experience of Korean traditional clothes

 

* It would be better to bring Hanbok, Korean traditional clothes, for having enjoyable times in the Hanok village. Since there are stores lending student uniforms around 1960s to 1980s, we would recommend you to wear special garments. You can have a more entertaining time as you pursue unique styles. 

* Koreans began to build Hanok village nearby Gyo-dong and Poongnam-dong in response to the overwhelming dominance in markets by Japanese merchants around 1930s. The purpose of organizing village was to resist with Japanese village construction and to keep national pride. Hanok houses were sharply contrast with Japanese styles and produces unique municipal landscape in harmony with foreign missionary villages, modern schools and churches. 

This is the way Hanok villages were organized in Gyo-dong and Poongnam-dong. If you do not know where to go and if you support foreign tourists kindly, there is a Hanok tourism information center located in Kirindaero 99, Wansan-gu, Jeonju, Jeollabukdo where interpreters in English, Japanese and Chinese wait for tourists. This center runs every day from 9:00am to 18:00pm. For contact, call 063-282-1330.

If you want to use toilets, you can get information on the location of public toilets on its website. You can be available if you get information by entering into the website without wasting time for searching toilets nearby. Shuttle buses run for public transportation users. Resident in Jeonju are not allowed to use buses, which only serve for tourists.

 

These buses run every day from 10:00am to 18L40pm. The last running time is based on Taejo-ro and bus stop at Napcheon bridge. One bus is operated in week and four buses are operated in weekend and holidays.

Bus route is as follows.

 

A route: Temporary Parking Lot in Hanok Village(Chimyeongjasan) - Bus stop at Taejo-ro

B route: Temporary Parking Lot in Hanok Village(Chimyeongjasan) - Bus stop at Namcheon bridge.

 

Jeon dong Cathedral

 

You can see a big cathedral as you walk the road of Hanok village. This is Jeon-dong cathedral, one of the most magnificent churches in South Korea. Build in Romanesque-style in magnificence, the first martyr had been here. Designed by Priest Poisnel and completed in 1914, this cathedral had been backgrounds in many drama and films; for example, main characters in movie "Promise" got married.