Boseong Gun
Seopyeonje Boseong Pansori Training Center
Seopyeonje Boseong Pansori Festival is held every October in the Sports Park including the Seopyeonje Boseong Pansori Training Center. Usually, this center is leased by the Seopyeonje Boseong Pansori Society to inherit and develop Pansori and Boseong Pansori, but on Thursday of the fourth week, movies are played by the culture center at free admission for the county residents.
- Location: 18 Yongmun-gil, Boseong-eup, Boseong-gun
- Seats: 251
Chae Dong-sun Concert Hall
Chae Dong-sun, born in 1901 in Semang-dong, Beolgyo-eup, was a composer and a violinist of Korea. He had solo recitals and concerts and organized a string quartet. After the independence, he organized the Goryeo Music Society and served as a director of the National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts. He, as a folk musician who raised national spirit in his musical pieces despite the Japanese pressure during the gloomy days, left masterpieces such as 'Homesickness', 'When Spring Comes' and 'Home'. To remember the shed new light on the noble life and world of music of the composer Chae Dong-sun who raised the racial spirit during the Japanese invasion, Chae Dong-sun Concert Hall was established. In an area over 1000㎡, the hall consists of a concern hall with 344 seats, an exhibition hall with the articles of Chae Dong-sun, dressroom, cast waiting room and machine control room.
Purpose: Musical concerts, movies, children's musical performances, students' performing events, various educations and events, etc.
Boseong-gun Baekmin Art Museum
Boseong-gun Baekmin Art Museum is located at the right foot of the mountain about 1km toward the Daewonsa Temple. Based on donations of around 350 pieces including the works by Baekmin Cho Gyu-il who had been a figurative artist born in this region who served as a judge of the National Art Exhibition and paintings of other famous artists at home and abroad, this art museum opened on December 29, 1993. On first floor of the art museum are the Cho Gyu-il hall, oriental painting hall and the international hall. The oriental painting hall exhibits a display of rare pieces by calligraphers of the region and the pieces during the late Joseon Dynasty. The international Hall exhibits a display of pieces by artists of merit in North Korea and pieces known as treasures in Russia including the wooden icons during the Czarist Russia.
The exhibition hall on the second floor allows natural lighting only. This natural lighting method blocks harmful rays and passes only the bright lights. The same method as the Musee d'Orsay in Paris has been used.
- Location: 168-14 Juksan-gil, Mundeok-myeon, Boseong-gun
- Admission Fee: None
- Phone: 061-853-0003
Tea Museum of Korea
Located by the heavenly tea plantation field, this tea museum delivers rich content on tea.
- 1F - Tea Culture Hall, A space for understanding tea, tea and health, tea of the world and the history of tea industry in Boseong
- 2F - Tea History Hall, An exhibition of tea tools showing the footsteps of tea, artifacts by time and history of tea culture until modern days
- 3F - Tea Life Hall, A tea culture experiencing space for knowing more about tea and its etiquette
- Location : 775 Nokcha-ro, Boseong-eup, Boseong-gun
Taebaek Mountain Range Literature Museum
Total 159 cases and 719 pieces including the handwritten manuscript by Cho Jung-rae are exhibited. Outside is the world first and world largest outdoor dry pottery and stone mural by Lee Jong-sang is exhibited.
- Location: 89-19 Hongam-ro, Beolgyo-eup, Boseong-gun
- Exhibition Contents
- Getting prepared and writing a novel
- Finishing novel Taebaek Mountain Range
- Publishing novel Taebaek Mountain Range
- Life of author and literature 'Taebaek Mountain Range']
- Taebaek Mountain Range Literature Museum Website : http://tbsm.boseong.go.kr
Natural Dye Crafts Hall
The Natural Dye Crafts Hall opened in May 2010 to promote hemp industry and create Korea's traditional style by using natural plant-originated pigments. Using cultivated hemp and pigments, clothes and various accessories are being produced. This hall consists of the Hanok building (workroom and design room, etc.), exhibition hall and dyeing building and auxiliary facilities.
- Location: 1529-45 Gaegi-ro, Bongnae-myeon, Boseong-gun / Natural Dye Crafts Hall
- Theme: Education and classes related to natural dyeing
- Class Contents: Hemp cultivation, pigment cultivation such as indigo and safflower, and weaving hemp cloth, etc.
- Inquiries: Culture & Tourism Department 061-850-5203
Traditional Crafts & Cultural Products
This crafts workshop opened in the old Munjeon Elementary School that has been closed due to the construction of the Juam dam for the purpose of inheriting and promoting the traditional craft works of the masters in Boseong-gun. On the first floor of the Traditional Crafts & Cultural Products are the workshops for pottery, brassware and indigo dyeing, and on the second floor are the exhibition hall and the education center.
- Location: 22-51 Goindol-gil, Mundeok-myeon, Boseong-gun
- Class: Boseong 'Deombeong Buncheong Sabal', Miryeok pottery, traditional dyeing, small wooden craft
- Exhibition: Traditional crafts Jomullak fair, etc.
- Contact: 011-637-4264
Chungjeolsa Temple
Choi Dae-sung from Gyeombaek-myeon of Boseong-gun, who had been a trainee during the Japanese invasion of Korea in 1592, volunteered as a follower of Yi Sun-shin and became the Hanhujang who made great contributions in winning battles in the southern sea. During the Jeongyujaeran war, when the Honam region was distressed over the collapse of the royal forces, he recruited thousands of soldiers and won victories in more than 20 tight matches in places such as Gwangyang, Suncheon and Goheung. In Songgok-ri, Deungnyang-myeon of Boseong-gun, on June 8 of year Musul, he was killed by the bullet of Japanese with his eyes wide open at the age 45. Since then, the junction in Samjeong-ri, Deungnyang-myeon where he passed away is called Gundu, and the historic site has been restored to remember his achievements.
Location: 1651 Chungui-ro, Deungnyang-myeon, Boseong-gun
