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Hanok space allowing you to concentrate only on you and others

Chiong Art Center Garden


Dreaming Hanok / Medicinal Herbal Tea



Situated at the foot of Chungnyeongsan Mountain in Gapyeong, Chiong Art Center is a place that fulfills the modern people’s ideal to rest in the arms of the nature through a relaxing stay at a real traditional hanok, a gallery that exhibits artworks and collections of local artists and a café named “Dreaming Hanok” selling medicinal herbal tea.



Performances of various genres are held on weekends, and people may also experience natural dyeing, handicrafts, and traditional cuisine cooking. The spacious front yard surrounded by hanok buildings is a great location for occasional small weddings. As you can see, Chiong Art Center is a complex space for culture and arts in which art, relaxation, and tradition form a perfect harmony.

“Chiong” (炊翁) is the pen name of Kim Ho, a potter and the director of the art center, and means a “fire-making person.” In the summer of 1998, a heavy rain in the northern part of Gyeonggi-do swept away his house and all of his work. He was immensely shocked by the event as the entire history he had built up to that point suddenly disappeared before his eyes. He recovered his mind and body after a long time and settled eventually in Gapyeong. Over a 2,000-pyeong land at the foot of Chungnyeongsan, he built traditional hanok buildings by himself over 4 years by cutting down trees, digging out the soil, and stacking stones in addition to constructing a gazebo and a pond as well. He had only one reason to establish Chiong Art Center: providing local residents a chance to encounter art, fostering local artists, and providing a work space for the artists. The art center is, thus, not just a structure; it is rather fruit borne by blood and sweat of an artist who has a genuine love for art.


Chiong Art Center is an outstanding hanok accommodation facility acknowledged by Korea Tourism Organization. There are visitors who come by themselves for a temporary relaxation and many foreign tourists visit as well. This enormous organic body lets out a long exhale of the scent of the nature to purify our spirits. Also, when you lie down in the ondol room where heat comes up from the floor, the toxin in your body feels to be purged. At the sound of “traditional hanok,” you may think of its inconveniences but the interior of this place is decorated in a modern fashion in consideration of the visitors’ convenience, and each room has its own equipment for simple cooking activities. At the art center, a table of natural foods, which is cooked with soybean paste fermented for several decades and wild greens having grown healthily in the nature, may be tasted as well.

Chiong Art Center is a world without a TV or Internet. Our ears that have been absorbing sounds of the ceaselessly running world we live in as well as our eyes and hands that have been busy searching for a variety of information are given freedom at last. Instead, I get to place my sole focus on my own inner side or the stories of family and friends. It is a valuable place that reminds me of what is really important in my life.


Written and photos by Kim Sun-joo


TIP.
You may participate in a culture experience at Chiong Art Center after making a reservation in advance (for a group of 10 or more people, please call the number above in advance)

Tea ceremony, natural dyeing, handkerchief making, tofu making, or rice cake making: 10,000 KRW, Cotton t-shirt making: 15,000 KRW, Scarf making: 30,000 KRW, Pansori, minyo or samulnori: To be consulted, Small wedding: To be consulted


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  • Chiong Art Center

    Address/ 300, Sumok-ro Sang-myeon, Gapyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do

    Contact/ 031-585-8649

    Check-in/check-out time/ 14:00 check-in, 11:00 check-out

    Accommodation fee (Hanok Stay)/ 3-person room: 80,000 KRW, 5-person room: 130,000 KRW, 10-person room: 260,000 KRW (fees for weekdays during off-season) * Refer to the website for fees for weekends during peak season

    Admission/ Adults: 2,000 KRW, Students (elementary, middle and high school): 1,000 KRW (Admission fee is refunded when using the restaurant, traditional café, and/or art shop)

    Hours of operation/ 10:00-18:00

    Parking/ Available

    Website/ http://www.chi-ong.co.kr/

    Blog/ https://chi_ong.blog.me/

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