Andong Hahoe village. + Byeongsan seowon.

Today I am heading to Hahoe village which is famous for Korean mask festival.
This season is the best time to take a trip among the 4 different seasons.
Maybe little warm weather is better.

This statue is the face of woman. I thought look very special

The side faces of the statue.

There are 150 families in the Hahoe village.

Fresh green sprouts shot up.

This is a house for just watching.

Main gate of Korean style house.

There is dragon pattern tile. It was very detail

There are lots of hall on the paper window. I don’t know what happen???

I guess Korean old house is very beautiful with those rocks.

This street is very peaceful and quite. I really liked this stone wall.

Look at this hanging doll..

Special hat and bag from Andong.

Straw shoes. I tried to wear this shoe. I felt very comfortable.

Korean mask necklace. Some scared smile.

There are many different kinds of mask. Different face; some smile some scared..
My favorite is big smile one!!

The street is thatched-house Street.

Wow~ this house and view was so awesome. The trees and river.. so pretty.

This picture looks like one scene of the movie.

Here is Byeongsan seowon.

At first, this Seowon(a local private school) was located in Pungsan-hyeon, with the name of "Pungak Seodang" for teaching local Confucianists since Goryeo Age. In 1572(5th year of Seonjo) Master Seoae Ryu Seongryong moved it to the present location.

As a leading local school for the memorial of masters and education, many scholars studied here.

Byeongsan Seowon is located in the nature, with buildings like a part of the scenery arount it and this makes Byeongsan Seowon one of beautiful traditional buildings in Korea.

 

This is the main classroom.

The name of Byeongsan Seowon was from the fact a mountain across Nakdong-gang(a river) from Seowon looks like Byeongpung(a traditional partition).

This is the place where I could think and refresh when I need to think too much about something.

I felt very calm and quite. Also If someone want to know more about Korea and feel from the real experience, do not hesitate to trip to Gyeongbuk Andong!