Seongeup Village 城邑民俗村

If you want to know the olden days living culture of the Korean, Seongeup Village is a place that you would not want to miss. The staff are those volunteer who translate and tell you story about the olden days man and woman status. Let's learn some fun stuff before we begin. You will find it fun if you know the meaning in Mandarin.

Man = Wang (王） Ba Li - King. The man are served like a king in a family.
Woman = Neng （能）Ba Li - Can. The woman can do anything in a family.
Single Lady = Pi （皮）Ba Li
Little Boy = Tong（童） Ba Li - Kids in mandarin.

According to the interpretor, the man only do two things in the family which is eat and make love. The rest of the burden hold by the woman they call them "Sea Woman". The woman have to take care the man of the house for everything, doing housework, diving into the sea to collect seaweeds, taking care of the children. As such, the woman is living in a totally unfair ancient with no second say.

The house you saw below is made by the lava rock with the horse shit. You can't believe it? That's true. During the war time, if you cooking at the kitchen with smoke coming out from the house, you are definitely in danger as the enemy knows someone is there. These horse shits made house helps to let go the smoke through the tiny holes so the house doesn't filled with smoke.

The wooden gate will tell you the status of the family if there's any people available in the family. If you happend to saw there's 4 wooden sticks at the gate, this is a widow house. Attention to man! If you happened to go in this house, you will never come out from this house and you are belongs to the woman in the house forever. Think twice before you action.

I should let  staff to tell you more story about this village and you will find it very interesting!