Staying healthy with slow food and horseback riding | Travel Course | K-Travel Mate

경기도 안성시 일죽면 고은리 은석마을에 있는 마곡산 중턱에 위치하여 쾌적한 자연환경을 자랑하고 있으며, 외승로와 30mX70m 크기의 대형실내마장, 승마를 처음 접하는 초급단계부터 국내 및 국제 승마경기 출전을 준비하는 고급단계까지의 모든 단계별 회원, 선수, 또는 말교육이 가능한 승마장이다.

Seoil Farm is a place that makes cheonggukjang using healthy ingredients carefully grown with our traditional eco-friendly methods. Fermented soybean blocks made from 100% locally grown soybeans, sun-dried salt without impurities, clean water drawn from the farm’s bedrock spring, and onggi pots that naturally regulate humidity and temperature with sunlight and wind all come together to create the unique flavor of their sauces. All products are made by Master Seo Bunrye, the only certified cheonggukjang master in Korea, offering food that captures nature's healthiness authentically. As a farm that makes doenjang, it is clean and well-sunlit. The 30,000-pyeong farm includes fields for planting soybeans and chili peppers, pear orchards, plum groves, a sauce research lab, a fermented clay room, and cold storage facilities. Over 2,000 earthenware jars for fermentation are lined up. Especially, the traditional restaurant Solli lets visitors enjoy the delicious flavors of Seoil Farm, experiencing the old tastes of Korea forgotten for a moment. The menu centers on hearty cheonggukjang and doenjang stew, accompanied by pickled vegetables like deodeok, gajuk, sesame leaves, persimmon, wild chives, seaweed, dried radish, radish, and seaweed salad, along with chili paste and ssamjang for wraps, and fresh vegetables, offering a simple and neat taste of mother’s hand-cooked food. Seoil Farm also offers a slow food experience program by reservation, where visitors can learn the wisdom of ancestors about food through activities such as cooking soybeans in a cauldron, making sauces, tofu, and cheonggukjang, creating and tasting healthy traditional Korean food themselves in a unique hands-on program only at Seoil Farm.

Anseong Market was one of the three major markets during the Joseon Dynasty, listed along with Daegu and Jeonju as a gateway to Seoul. It was a large market bustling with various crafts and innkeepers, said to have two or three more varieties than Seoul. However, now it has been modernized to the point where the old appearance is hard to find. The once messy old market has been organized into a neat and tidy place, with a high roof allowing comfortable shopping regardless of season or weather. One factor contributing to Anseong Market's development was the large production of metalware in Anseong. Later, as the Gyeongbu Line shifted its route to Pyeongtaek, the market gradually declined. Currently, the proportion of agricultural products in market transactions has decreased, while the trade of livestock has greatly increased. The market also opens on the 2nd and 7th days along the main road between Anseong Intercity Bus Terminal and Jungang Market. Various spring vegetables such as strawberries, mugwort, and sowthistle are prominent, and especially the scenes of selling meju and jangdok rain covers are heartwarming. On the roadside outside the market, elderly people display assorted spring vegetables, beans, barley, and herbal medicine bundles, waiting for customers, creating the atmosphere of an oiljang (traditional market).

삼국시대에 축조된 산성으로, 해발 472m의 망이산 정상에서 북쪽으로 낮은 능선을 따라 성벽을 쌓았다. 남쪽으로는 음성군 삼성면과 멀리 진천군 일대의 들판이 내려다 보이는 군사 요충지이며, 산정상 주변에 흙으로 내성을 쌓고 능선에는 길이 약 2㎞에 걸쳐 돌을 사용하여 외성을 쌓았다.