Learning and Playing in Cheongju's Nature

With the merger of Cheongju and Cheongwon-gun, the nature of Cheongwon-gun became part of Cheongju-si. This course—observing the various plants of Midongsan Arboretum, touring Munui Cultural Heritage Complex where you can learn about our traditional culture, and looking around the history and culture of the presidency at Cheongnamdae, the villa used by past presidents—will make for a rewarding day if you go with your children. Source: Chungcheong, More Charming the Longer You Stay

Along the way

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   Midongsan Arboretum

   미동산수목원

   This is a facility that collects and preserves diverse genetic resources to sustain the value of plant genes, and that researches, manages, and exhibits them to widely spread plant-related knowledge and lead the way in a healthy forest environment culture. Built on a site of 941,000 pyeong over six years starting in 1996 with 6 billion won invested through a state-funded project, it holds excellent genetic resources including descendant trees of our region's Jeongibumsong (a famous pine), and 873 species and 652,000 individual plants are planted across 11 specialized garden areas, including an oak garden and a maple garden. \nMoreLess

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   Munui Cultural Heritage Complex

   문의문화재단지

   Munui Cultural Heritage Complex is a history education site that opened in 1997. It was established to recreate Korea's own traditional culture, which has been disappearing amid the development of human civilization and rapid industrialization, and to revive and learn from the lives and spirit of our ancestors. On a site of about 109,091㎡ (roughly 33,000 pyeong), it recreates 10 old buildings, including Munsangwan Hall, Local Tangible Cultural Heritage No. 49, along with traditional houses and a folk materials exhibition hall, as well as scenes of old daily life such as village guardian posts (jangseung), millstones turned by draft animals (yeonjabanga), and village shrines (seonghwangdang).\nMoreLess

   

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   Cheongnamdae

   청남대

   After President Chun Doo-hwan, who attended the completion ceremony of Daecheong Dam in 1980, remarked on the outstanding surrounding environment, construction began in June 1983 and was completed just six months later, in December. Successive presidents used it 4-5 times a year, up to 7-8 times in some years, for summer vacations and holiday breaks, spending a total of about 88 visits and over 400 days here over some 20 years. Built on about 560,000 pyeong of land near Daecheong Dam in what was then Cheongwon-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do, this presidential villa's name means 'the Blue House of the warm south.' Built during the Fifth Republic, when public opinion worsened over concerns such as damage to a planned public park around the Daecheong Dam area, the National Assembly's Fifth Republic Special Committee even conducted an on-site investigation in 1988.\nMoreLess

   

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