When my coworker, Jennifer, first suggested an outing to the Korean Folk Village I conjured up scenes of desolate run down huts with a few clay pots or demolished brick ovens. However, I couldn’t have been more wrong. The Folk Village turned out to be a day of great fun and good food.
It all started by taking a bus from Sadang station to Suwon to make the 11:30 bus to the Korean Folk Village. I arrived on time, but Jen got hijacked by a runaway subway train that went the wrong direction. We missed the 11:30.
Then after Jen arrived, while trying for the 12:30, we couldn’t find our third musketeer, Samara, who was wandering around the stores in the Suwon station mall. We finally caught up to her, but then ended up just missing the 12:30. No sweat. We grabbed coffee, a sandwich, and made sure we kept our date with that 1:30 bus and arrived at the Korean Folk Village.
The animal pen wherein I found out that the Korean Folk Village doesn’t play around with fake plastic animals, nope, nothing but real live farm critters including chickens, rabbits, and goats.
One of the highlights of the folk village was the reenactment of a traditional Korean wedding. The manor house where the festivities took place was chock full of onlookers and I only managed to take a few clear shots from the sidelines. Here the priest arrives with his minions of wedded bliss.
