A few years ago, there was a UA-cam video of a UA-camr walking through the quiet alleys of Bukchon Hanok Village in the cold winter dawn, with snow falling softly. It felt like a meditation, as if I had been transported back in time to Korea a few hundred years ago. If you go to the Korean Folk Village in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, you can see various traditional houses such as those of commoners and nobles from a long time ago in Korea. It was often used as a filming location for Korean historical dramas in the past. Recently, many filming villages have been built in various parts of the country for filming. Have a great time.
That sounds like amazing footage with the snow., As an Aussie who rarely sees snow, that type of weather fascinates me. Yongin does look like you could have a 'step back in time' moment and is on my list for the next trip, the rain dashed my plans this time.
Once again, thank you sharing a short video of Bukchon Hanok Village. Maybe, you could have hired a Hanbok for yourself like others on your video and walked around the village. If you are still in Seoul, and like to taste really good snacks, try these two bakeries La Boite Bleu and Bakery Tori and Namusairo for a very nice coffee inside typical old Hanok house. Personally, I highly recommended them.
Thanks, David, yes I would have liked to hire a Hanbok but decided it was a bit hard to manage when travelling solo. I did have some funny conversations with Hanbok wearing ladies about the jeans or sneakers they were wearing underneath and the challenges of going to the toilet. Thanks for the tips on the bakeries, they are now on the list for the next trip!
I think of the “keep quiet” sign as a ‘happy scream’. Korea's birth rate is 0.7. David Coleman, a professor of demography at Oxford University, mentioned Korea's severely low birth rate at the 2006 UN Population Forum and warned that if this continues, Korea will become the first country to lose its population. Currently, rural areas in Korea are uninhabited and have turned into ghost towns. If there were no tourists visiting, the sign for ‘Bukchon Hanok Village’ would change like this. “Please visit and make a lot of noise.” I wonder how Australians live, despite being almost 80 times the size of Korea and only making up half of Korea's population.
Well that's a fascinating statistic I had no idea about and I like your term 'happy scream'. In Australia country towns also suffer from young people moving to the city/coast however some do move back when they start a family. With the pandemic and changes to working practices, some office-based workers have been able to relocate back to the country, and keep their city job by 'working from home'.
Are you Korean? The population decline in Korea is an important task that Korea must carefully address, not populism of politicians. However, your statement that "rural areas in Korea have turned into ghost towns where no one lives?" is an exaggeration that I do not agree with at all, and I wonder if you are Korean. It seems like you are living in a different Korea than me. I am from a rural area and visit my hometown frequently. And because I am from a rural area, I pay closer attention to and feel more deeply about the changes in rural areas than those from urban areas. The population decline in rural areas is due to low birth rates, but it has been caused by migration to cities due to regional development disparities since ancient times. And these days, there are also retirees and young people who dream of a different rural life settling in rural areas. Of course, this is not enough to recover the rural population. The important thing is that your expression goes beyond concern about the population decline in Korea and creates the serious illusion that rural areas in Korea have all disappeared and become ghost towns. Excessive nationalism is bad, but excessive pessimism is also bad.
A few years ago, there was a UA-cam video of a UA-camr walking through the quiet alleys of Bukchon Hanok Village in the cold winter dawn, with snow falling softly. It felt like a meditation, as if I had been transported back in time to Korea a few hundred years ago.
If you go to the Korean Folk Village in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, you can see various traditional houses such as those of commoners and nobles from a long time ago in Korea.
It was often used as a filming location for Korean historical dramas in the past. Recently, many filming villages have been built in various parts of the country for filming.
Have a great time.
That sounds like amazing footage with the snow., As an Aussie who rarely sees snow, that type of weather fascinates me. Yongin does look like you could have a 'step back in time' moment and is on my list for the next trip, the rain dashed my plans this time.
Once again, thank you sharing a short video of Bukchon Hanok Village. Maybe, you could have hired a Hanbok for yourself like others on your video and walked around the village. If you are still in Seoul, and like to taste really good snacks, try these two bakeries La Boite Bleu and Bakery Tori and Namusairo for a very nice coffee inside typical old Hanok house. Personally, I highly recommended them.
Thanks, David, yes I would have liked to hire a Hanbok but decided it was a bit hard to manage when travelling solo. I did have some funny conversations with Hanbok wearing ladies about the jeans or sneakers they were wearing underneath and the challenges of going to the toilet. Thanks for the tips on the bakeries, they are now on the list for the next trip!
I think of the “keep quiet” sign as a ‘happy scream’. Korea's birth rate is 0.7. David Coleman, a professor of demography at Oxford University, mentioned Korea's severely low birth rate at the 2006 UN Population Forum and warned that if this continues, Korea will become the first country to lose its population. Currently, rural areas in Korea are uninhabited and have turned into ghost towns. If there were no tourists visiting, the sign for ‘Bukchon Hanok Village’ would change like this. “Please visit and make a lot of noise.” I wonder how Australians live, despite being almost 80 times the size of Korea and only making up half of Korea's population.
Well that's a fascinating statistic I had no idea about and I like your term 'happy scream'. In Australia country towns also suffer from young people moving to the city/coast however some do move back when they start a family. With the pandemic and changes to working practices, some office-based workers have been able to relocate back to the country, and keep their city job by 'working from home'.
Are you Korean?
The population decline in Korea is an important task that Korea must carefully address, not populism of politicians.
However, your statement that "rural areas in Korea have turned into ghost towns where no one lives?" is an exaggeration that I do not agree with at all, and I wonder if you are Korean.
It seems like you are living in a different Korea than me.
I am from a rural area and visit my hometown frequently.
And because I am from a rural area, I pay closer attention to and feel more deeply about the changes in rural areas than those from urban areas.
The population decline in rural areas is due to low birth rates, but it has been caused by migration to cities due to regional development disparities since ancient times.
And these days, there are also retirees and young people who dream of a different rural life settling in rural areas.
Of course, this is not enough to recover the rural population.
The important thing is that your expression goes beyond concern about the population decline in Korea and creates the serious illusion that rural areas in Korea have all disappeared and become ghost towns.
Excessive nationalism is bad, but excessive pessimism is also bad.