Korean Folk Village

Despite the rains, we had a great time visiting the Korean Folk Village this May 2025. You get to know more about Korea's culture and appreciate how they maintained this beautiful attraction. A must-visit place when in South Korea. 🖤🤍❤️💙

My wife and I visited on a Tuesday early afternoon, 6/10/2025, as part of a day tour package. This park had many recreations of buildings and tools of Korean life from many years ago. The parking lot was no more than a third full, so many food and souvenir shops were not open throughout the park. That was fine for us, because the best parts of the park, the scenery, the traditional buildings and gardens, were not crowded and allowed us to stroll and take many photos and selfies with almost no one around. The best part of our visit was the live traditional dance performance at 4 pm. There were many live performances scheduled throughout the day at several areas of the park, but we could only see the 4 pm show because of our limited time with the tour.

This is a theme park of Korea during the Joseon dynasty. Mostly it’s old style houses from different regions and social classes, very interesting if you are into that sort of thing. There are some music or dance shows throughout the day, I would highly recommend to see them. There is also a mini world museum with photos and artifacts from all over the world. There is an also a carnival part with attractions for kids, a museum of Korea, a few restaurants, shops and some activities to do like horse riding or archery. A lot of things are closed during the weekdays tho, like the horror experience house. I would say it’s a nice experience if you have some extra days in Seoul and you really want to learn more about the history of the country. My only suggestion would be to add more activities for adults, there are some things to do but it felt like half were designed for kids. For a better reference I would suggest to look at Edo World close to Tokyo in Japan.

We were lucky to see a traditional Korean wedding, it was beautiful dancing. The village is fun for adults and kids, you can put yourself in the time of the Joseon dynasty and just walk around to see how people lived. There are a lot of activities for kids as well, they will have fun in the water park in the Summer. People can make pottery in the workshop. There is a decent amount of food to choose from as well, which is pretty good (not gourmet but tasted ok). There are some exhibits to help you understand what life was like during the Joseon dynasty. There is a rental place so you can dress in Hanbok if you want to embrace the history (many people do). We visited on a weekday so it wasn't super busy, this is what I'd recommend.

Amazing experience, large venue filled with beautiful examples of 'old' folk korean homes and way of life. Clean, loads to see, places to stop and rest or eat. The performances and intervals are also a great experience. 10/10

Great place to actually see the culture of Korea during their Joeseon Dynasty. They have many houses from all over Korea that have been transplanted. Also have a Buddhist temple on site. You get to watch craftsman work in traditional methods to make various items. Then if you don't care about that there is also a water park, and a small theme park.

This one of the nice places to understand the older cultures inside of Korea.. Related to kings, landlords and framing community.. There are certain shows which happen time to time which are worth waiting to see.

It's a good place to add into your iterinary if you want to rent a Hanbok and experience traditional Korean Village minus the crowd that can be expected at palaces like Gyeongbokung/ villages like Bunchok Hanok Village. They also have Korean cultural performances timed throughout the day to keep you busy and enticed. However, the place looked like it wasn't completely open for business when I went, since most shops meant to be selling food and drinks and souvenirs, etc, were closed. The adventure park section also only had 2 to 3 rides operating with all surrounding ( very cute and nicely done, may I add ) shops closed. Maybe we picked a wrong day to go? To be fair, it was midweek and not the weekend. I am sure their weekend footfall could be a totally different story. I enjoyed my photo sess 🤣 & plus points for the staff at entry / exit who were very helpful in helping us navigate our way back from there to Euljiro too.