Jeongseon Arirang Festival 정선아리랑제

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Jeongseon Arirang is the regional variety of Arirang, Korea’s best-known folk song, native to Jeongseon area of Gangwon-do. A festival is held every year in homage to his folk song, designated as Gangwondo Intangible Cultural Heritage No.1. Jeongseon Arirang Festival inaugurates with a costumed parade and street folk performance. The main highlight of the festival is the performance of Jeongseon Arirang, next is followed by a variety of other folk performances, cultural events and sporting events. Participatory events are open to public participation, including Jeongseon Arirang singing competition, the reenactment of Ttetmok Arari and a local direct contest.

EXTRA INFO:

• ·     Admission fees: Free
• ·     Date: 29 September ~ 2 October 2017
• ·    Address: 112, Bongyang-ri, Jeongseon-eup, Jeongseon-gun, Gangwon-do
• ·   Transportation: From Dong Seoul Bus Terminal, take an intercity bus to Jeongseon.From Jeongseon Terminal, take a taxi to the festival grounds. (5-10 minutes)

Gyeongbokgung Palace Reconstruction: Jeongseon Arirang spreads out nationwide

In 1867, during the regency of Daewongun (Prince Lee Ha Eung), father of Gojong (Last emperor in Joseon Dynasty), Gyeongbokgung palace buildings were reconstructed and formed a massive complex with 330 buildings and 5,792 rooms. Standing on 4,657,576 square feet of land, Gyeongbokgung again became an iconic symbol for both the Korea nation and the Korean loyal family. Workers sang many work folk songs together to relieve stress and comforted themselves. Nonetheless, Jeongseon Arirang was most popular as it has a nice chorus part to sing along as “Arari-Arirang”. Throughout dramatic modern Korean history with sorrowful moments as colonial period and Korean war, Arirang as a symbol of Korea has been together with people comforting the heartbrokenness and sharing the happiness and sadness all the time.

Arari Village

Ararichon Village has replicas of traditional houses that were located in Jeongseon. Here, you can see unique traditional house of Jeongseon such as Neowajib House and etc which are not found in other regions.

Arirang School Memories Museum

The Memories Museum is a museum located inside Jeongseon Arirang School, exhibiting historical artefacts from modern and contemporary eras. Items from bygone decades, such as quaint school textbooks are displayed alongside a collection.

A-Train

The “A” in the train’s name comes from “Arirang” (a Korean folk song), and the words “amazement” and “adventure’. The train opened on January 22, 2015, from Cheongyangni Station in northeastern Seoul and passes through several stations in Gangwon-do, including Mindungsan and Jeongseon, which hosts the “Jeongseon Five-day Market”, and arriving at Auraji Station. The Korean folk song also listed as an Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO and sometimes regarded as an unofficial anthem of Korea.

Besides that, the train has 4 different themed cars with large windows and glass walls; one is sky room, one is a tea room, and two of the cars are decorated in regional colours of red, yellow, blue and purple representing Jeongseon’s geographical features. Activities on the train include storytelling, music, magic shows and quiz games.

The new line to Jeongseon is the 1^st train to be named after a Korean town, and generated additional local interest due to the proximity of the scheduled 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

Gondrebap

Gondre is a wild vegetable full of vitamin. Gondrebap (steamed rice with gondre) is very famous in Jeongseon/ Taebaek area as gondre in these areas is very softy and crispy.

Kotdeungchigi Guksu

An exemplary food using buckwheat is the buckwheat noodle called Kotdeungchigi noodle. Kotdeungchigi means “hit the nose” in Korean. This noodle may slap your nose when you eat it because of a thick and resilient texture.

Ongsimi

Ongsimi, a native food of Gangwon province, is also one of the foods that you should try during your visit to the Jeongseon. Ongsimi is made by grinding a potato, draining water out of it, and mixing it with starch flour to make “Ongsimi (small dumpling)”. Potato ongsimi is made by the province’s staple potato which is well known for its great taste.

Jeongseon Arirang Academy: Preservation of Jeongseon Arirang

Jeongseon Arirang is a local folk song that delivers the feelings of the people of Jeongseon, a mountainous village and it is also called Arari. The song was traditionally sung by local folks who didn’t know how to read or write, so there is no well-organized record about it, Jeongseon Arirang Academy was established to hand down and promote Jeongseon Arirang, it has teaching room, performance room and others. Arirang classes held on Wednesday to enable people learning Arirang from the master singer of Jeongseon Arirang.

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