Andong Hahoe Village

You can never go to Andong, a small city located in North Kyongsang Province, without feeling like youve stepped back in time. Walking around the historic sites and alleys of traditional Korean-style houses called ``hanok, you might feel as if you were visiting a place in the Choson Kingdom. However, its not just the outward appearance of the city that gives you such an impression. It is rather the atmosphere settling along the whole region, and one can see that all Andong residents live amongst a brilliant combination of human culture and nature. That explains why people here are so proud of what they are. They have pride in their history, and also in their peculiar conservativeness, a trait their tradition naturally has endowed them. Here the mountain and the river embrace each other in the shape of the ``Tai-chi symbol, the most ideal shape for cohabitation, which is shown in the names of places here. The name ``Hahoemaul, also called ``Multoridong, describes a village with a river curving around it. It seems that the surrounding circumstances inspired a large clan of the literati class centuries ago, and their scholarly character as well. Their studies, based on authentic Confucianism, focuses on how to improve the inner self as to be like nature by living alongside nature. Andong is a reservoir of Korean traditional culture and a living example of how people can live beside nature peacefully and harmoniously

naturally has endowed them. Here the mountain and the river embrace each other in the shape of the ``Tai-chi symbol, the most ideal shape for cohabitation, which is shown in the names of places here. The name ``Hahoemaul, also called ``Multoridong, describes a village with a river curving around it. It seems that the surrounding circumstances inspired a large clan of the literati class centuries ago, and their scholarly character as well. Their studies, based on authentic Confucianism, focuses on how to improve the inner self as to be like nature by living alongside nature. Andong is a reservoir of Korean traditional culture and a living example of how people can live beside nature peacefully and harmoniously