Rural Experience
| Program | Description | Season | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Picking spring greens | A unique experience during wonderful spring days when sprouts are coming out and all the greens are spreading; pick wild greens and learn about edible greens! | Spring | 1 hour |
| Growing a kitchen garden | Plant various seeds and seedlings to see the growing process. | All seasons | 2 hour |
| Rice-planting | Experience the process of harvesting rice with other participants to understand its value and the hard work put in by farmers. | Spring | 2 hour |
| Planting tomatoes | Plant tomato seedlings in pots. | Spring Summer |
1 hour |
| Picking fruits | Enjoy the fruits you picked and learn the tips for selecting a good seasonal fruit. | Spring Summer Fall |
1 hour |
| Threshing beans | Thresh beans using a flail or a thresher. | Fall | 1 hour |
| Shaking sesame | Grind sesame seeds to make sesame oil and learn their virtues as well as tips for selecting good sesame. | Fall | 1 hour |
| Harvesting farm products | Gather farm products including potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corns and enjoy yourself. | Summer Fall |
1 hour |
| Growing special crops | Learn the virtues of mushroom/ginseng as well as how to select good mushroom/ginseng. Gather mushrooms/ginseng and cook them yourself. | Summer Fall |
1 hour |
| Making compost | Make fertilizer (compost) using straws, weeds, and fallen leaves to understand the environmental agriculture that values earth and life. | Summer Fall |
3 hour |
| Gathering honey | Gather honey and observe the mode of a bee’s life. | Spring Summer/Fall |
1 hour |
| Gathering acorns and chestnuts | Shake chestnut trees to make chestnuts fall and gather them and pick up the fallen acorns. | Fall | 2 hour |
| Picking, roasting, and spreading green tea leaves | Pick, roast, and spread green tea leaves after learning how to pick them. | - | 2 hour |
| Picking persimmons to make dried persimmons | Make dried persimmons out of the persimmons you picked after learning the tips on selecting a good persimmon. | Fall | 2 hour |
| Feeding cattle | Boil straw, bean chaff, and others husks and feed calves with the boiled fodder. | Winter | 1~2 hour |
| Feeding animals | Feed the animals firsthand. | Spring Summer Fall |
1 hour |
| Milking a cow | Observe the milking process using a milking machine and milk a cow yourself. Enjoy the milk after warming it up in a double boiler. | Spring Summer Fall |
1 hour |
| Rolling a hoop | Roll a hoop (and strengthen the unity of a group) while experiencing traditional recreation culture. | Spring Fall |
1 hour |
| Chopping firewood | Climb a mountain carrying an A-frame and cut down trees. Chop the wood into firewood. | Fall | 2 hour |
| Traditional seesawing | Traditional recreation similar to the western seesawing; after two persons hop up to the long wooden panel, jump up above the panel one by one. | Spring Winter |
1 hour |
| Learning the etiquette for the tea ceremony | Learn how to brew and drink tea properly after being taught the history and etiquette of tea. | All seasons | 1 hour |
| Log-rafting | Raft yourself after learning how a raft works and how to make one using logs. | Spring Summer Fall |
3 hour |
| Grinding beans in a stone mill | Grind beans using a stone mil - a traditional device for grinding grains. | All seasons | 1 hour |
| Catherine Wheel | Practice the old tradition of predicting the harvest by the size of the fire in Catherine Wheel in January. | Winter | 1 hour |
| Band-shaped fire | Write a wish and burn it in a band-shaped fire as a form of prayer on the 15th of January in the lunar calendar. | Winter | 1 hour |
| Tu-ho game | Experience a traditional game called Tu-ho. Split into two teams. Throw more arrowheads into a jar to win the game. | All seasons | 1 hour |
| Learning traditional etiquette | Learn how to wear traditional Korean clothes, how to make a polite bow, how to make appropriate greetings, and other traditional etiquettes. | All seasons | 1 hour |
| Making pickled side dishes | Make pickled side dishes from hot peppers and sweet persimmons. | Summer Fall |
1 hour |
| Making flower-shaped oil-and-honey pastries | Make traditional Korean pastries that mothers make. | All seasons | 1 hour |
| Making fermented soybeans | Boil soybeans to make fermented soybean paste called Me-Ju, the basic ingredient in Korean foods and symbol of mothers’ cooking. | Winter | 1 hour |
| Making soybean paste | Make thick soy paste by mixing red pepper and soybean paste, the signature fermented food in Korea. | Winter | 3 hour |
| Making iced tea from Japanese apricots | Prepare and make iced tea using Japanese apricots. | All seasons | 1 hour |
| Making Korean rice cakes | Make Korean rice cakes – one of the famous traditional snacks. | All seasons | 1 hour |
| Tadpole noodles | Make tadpole noodles combined with ground corn. | All seasons | 1 hour |
| Making kimchi | Make kimchi, the famous Korean traditional fermented food. | Winter | 1 hour |
| Making grape jam | Make grape jam using the grapes you picked. | Fall | 1 hour |
| Making buckwheat /acorn starch jelly | Make traditional jelly from buckwheat and acorn starch. | All seasons | 1 hour |
| Making Sujeong-ghwa Sik-hye |
Make traditional beverages (fruit punch called Sujeong-ghwa and sweet drink made from fermented rice called Sik-hye) rich in Vitamin C. | Winter | 1 hour |
| Making bean curd | Make traditional bean curd or tofu from highly nutritious beans. | All seasons | 2 hour |
| Making fruit wine | Make fruit wine from wild berries and cherries. | Spring Summer |
1 hour |
| Making Injeolmi | Make traditional rice cake covered with bean flour called Injeolmi. | All seasons | 1 hour |
