[Planning] As fall deepens, let’s go on an emotional trip to Yangju, Gyeonggi-do
Enjoy contemplation along the traces of your ancestors, full of art and romance... Jangheung Tourist Resort, Hoeam Temple Site, etc.
[Break News Yangju = Reporter Kim Wan-young] Yangju, located in the northern Gyeonggi region near Hanyang, the former capital of Joseon, is a place where history and culture are alive. There are many attractions that the whole family can enjoy, regardless of gender or age, so tourists are constantly visiting the area.
If you enjoy contemplation along the traces of your ancestors in Yangju, a place full of art and romance, you will be able to feel the dignity of the original family in northern Gyeonggi Province.
The end of autumn. If you are looking for a cultural and artistic space where colorful autumn leaves add to the autumn mood, we recommend taking an emotional trip to Yangju.
■ How about a fall foliage trip to Jangheung, filled with romance and emotion?
If you want a quiet break where you can enjoy a walk or drive while viewing the autumn leaves, Jangheung, with its clear fall weather, is the perfect place.
You can fully feel the lyrical sensibility unique to Yangju by looking at the mysterious scenery of deeply colored autumn leaves on the ridge that flows gently from the top of the mountain to the valley.
The waterside promenade, which is good for walking along the waterway, has cultural and artistic spaces in nature where you can enjoy culture and relaxation, such as Yangju City Jang Ucchin Art Museum, Min Bokjin Art Museum, Jangheung Sculpture Park, and Songam Space Center.
The Jang Ucchin Art Museum, which exhibits the works and materials of Jang Ucchin, a representative artist of Korean modern and contemporary art, has a unique architectural style built with the motif of Jang's tiger painting 'Hojakdo' and the concept of a house, and is one of the 8 Greatest New Art Museums of the BBC 2014. It was selected as one of the top 100 local places by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in October.
You can see various exhibitions and programs that citizens can relate to, and in particular, there is a sculpture park between the art museum and the stream, making it perfect for not only viewing, but also walking through the park with fall foliage and family outings.
Jangheung Sculpture Park, located between the Jang Ucchin Museum of Art and the valley, attracts attention with sculptures of various shapes dressed in fall clothes that match the surrounding colorful autumn leaves.
Yangju City Min Bok-jin Art Museum, located across the street from the Jang Wook-jin Art Museum, was created with donated works by Min Bok-jin, a representative Korean sculptor.
This place, which houses two art museums, is truly a great place for art where you can enjoy the beauty of blank space provided by nature as well as the pleasure delivered by works of art.
Songam Space Center, located at the foot of Hyeongjebong Peak, 440m above sea level on Gyemyeongsan Mountain, is the best astronomy theme park in Korea with facilities such as a space center on the second floor and a star house on the fourth floor.
There is nothing more romantic than taking a cable car up to see the stars in the sky and the panoramic view.
If you walk along the tributary of Seokhyeoncheon Stream from Songam Pay Center to Jangheung-myeon Administrative Welfare Center, you will find facilities that you can enjoy with children.
Representative examples include the art complex Gana Art Park, theme park Duri Land, and Cheongam Folk Museum.
Gana Art Park consists of a children's art experience center, an outdoor sculpture park, an exhibition hall, and a performance hall. There are many spaces and facilities designed like playgrounds, so children can run around to their heart's content and freely display their artistic talents.
Duri Land, across from Gana Art Park, has been transformed into a complex theme park space that can be enjoyed by people of all ages. You can enjoy a variety of exhibitions and experiences, including various play facilities, Lego, dinosaurs, and dolls, and even stay overnight at the camping caravan park.
Below Duri Land is the Cheongam Folk Museum, where you can reminisce about old memories. By vividly reproducing over 12,000 old objects and the past lifestyles of our ancestors, you can present nostalgia to adults and provide children with a special time to go back in time.
Jangheung, a cultural and artistic space painted like a landscape painting in the natural landscape, is a healing space where you can feel peace and relaxation no matter what season you visit. It can be said to be a must-visit course for tourists visiting Yangju.
■ Enjoy the fall foliage and feel the breath of history… Yangju Government House, Hoeam Temple Site Museum, Jo So-ang Memorial Hall
If you want to take a trip back to the glorious times of Yangjumok's past, let's go to Yangju Government Office.
Yangju Government Office was the location of the government office that ruled Yangju-mok for 417 years from the Joseon Dynasty to the Japanese colonial period, and was designated as a Gyeonggi-do monument on April 23, 1999.
The facilities attached to Dongheon, where Pastor Yangju worked, and the restored Yangju government office show off their historical grandeur as they are surrounded by the mountain range of Bulgok Mountain, which Kim Jeong-ho, a high-ranking scholar, recorded as the true mountain of Yangju.
It is adjacent to Yangju Station on Subway Line 1, providing good accessibility for tourists, and there are historical and cultural resources scattered throughout the area, including Yangju Byeolsandae Playground and Yangju Hyanggyo.
Walking here with your family along the 500-year history of Yangjumok will be a mysterious journey through time.
If you want to experience the essence of Buddhist culture, the Hoeam Temple Site Museum is the place to be. Hoeamsa Temple Site is a place where Buddhist culture continued to flourish even after the Buddhist country Goryeo and the Confucian country Joseon were founded.
The museum was established to collect, store, research, exhibit, and educate artifacts excavated from the Hoeamsa Temple site in Yangju. Fall is the best season to walk around Hoeamsa Temple, the largest royal temple in the early Joseon Dynasty.
You can visit museums close to residential areas on weekends and spend quality time with your family. In particular, it provides vivid historical and cultural scenes for children.
It was Jo So-ang who founded the Samgyunism, which I learned only from textbooks during my school days. If you want to meet an independence activist who did important work in our history, you can visit the Jo So-ang Memorial Hall located in Hwangbang-ri, Nam-myeon.
This place was opened in May 2016 to commemorate the noble feat of Jo So-ang, a patriot who devoted himself to the independence and democratic development of his country, and to further promote the spirit of the nation and people by promoting his spirit.
The Jo So-ang Memorial Hall, which houses Wondang Reservoir, is surrounded by a reed field, and nearby are hidden places where you can fully enjoy the autumn atmosphere, such as Natural Monument No. 278 'Yangju yellow zelkova tree', a waterside walkway, Bongam Reservoir, and Gamaksan Mountain, one of the five peaks of Gyeonggi Province. It is a tourist attraction.
Yangju, a place where modern culture and arts, long history and traditions are alive and well, provides a space for learning and play for children and a time of rest and healing for adults, and its charms are endless. Let’s feel fall with our whole body in Yangju now.