Refreshing Romance in Gangneung by the East Sea [Welchon] | Travel Course | K-Travel Mate

갈골한과마을 명인의 집은 150년 이상의 역사가 있는 강릉 식문화유산이며, 5대째 최봉석 명인이 60년 넘게 한결같은 한과의 맛을 이어가고 있다. 갈골과줄의 전승 역사는 예절과 효행을 중시하는 가문의 영향으로 유난히 제례 등의 행사가 많았던 것에서 비롯되었다고 한다.

'오죽헌'은 조선시대의 대학자 율곡 이이와 관련하여 유명해진 강릉 지역의 대표적인 유적지이다. 오죽헌은 조선 초기의 건축물로, 건축사적인 면에서 중요성을 인정받아 1963년 보물 제165호로 지정됐다. 이 곳 몽룡실(夢龍室)에서 율곡 이이(李珥)가 태어났다고 한다.

Jeonggami Village is located in Gangdong-myeon, Gangneung-si, consisting of four villages: Mojeon 1-ri, Sangsidong 2-ri, and Eonbyeol 1, 2-ri, with 513 households. It is famous for its delicious persimmons. Jeonggami Village offers various rural experience programs, divided into farming experiences, craft experiences, and food experiences. Farming experiences include sowing and planting vegetables in spring; harvesting corn and potatoes in summer; and harvesting peanuts, sweet potatoes, picking persimmons, making dried persimmons, and half-dried persimmons in autumn. Craft experiences include persimmon dyeing, which involves picking fresh persimmons before the seeds mature, grinding, filtering through cloth, and washing and drying at least three times; making LED lanterns with bug pictures, pinewood storage boxes, pinewood pencil holders, and personalized mugs. Food experiences include making dried persimmon rice cakes, dried persimmon songpyeon, dried persimmons, dried persimmon glutinous rice red pepper paste, and dried persimmon tarts.

There are three places where you can swim at Jeongdongjin: the sea in front of Jeongdongjin Station, the sea in front of the Hourglass Park, and the sea with the Jeongdongjin breakwater. The wide and easy-to-use places are the beach in front of Jeongdongjin Station and the sea in front of Hourglass Park. The Hourglass Park lights up day and night and is a tourist attraction with Sculpture (Sunrise) Park and Heonhwa Road to the south. Especially, in front of Jeongdongjin Station, there are many rocks where people can pick clams, mussels, seaweed, and sea urchins, attracting many visitors. It is also the world's closest simple station to the sea, attracting many tourists who greet the majestic sun rising from the blue Donghae sea. Since the operation of the Jeongdongjin Sunrise Tourist Train in 1997, the area has rapidly risen in popularity and remains crowded with tourists all year round.

Hourglass Park is quaintly arranged against the backdrop of the East Sea, mountains, and Jeongdongjin 2-ri village. In the center is an hourglass, surrounded by pine trees. There are benches facing the sea. Directly in front of Hourglass Park is Jeongdongjin Beach. Jeongdongjin Hourglass Park was created in 1999 by Gangneung City and Samsung Electronics to commemorate the new millennium, with a total project cost of 1.28 billion won. The hourglass in the park is the largest in the world by size and weight, and the sand inside takes exactly one year to fall completely to the bottom. Then, at midnight on January 1 of the next year, it is rotated half a turn to start anew. Unlike a slender gourdlike glass vessel, Jeongdongjin's hourglass has a round shape to symbolize the infinity of time. The round shape also represents the sun rising over the East Sea, and the parallel train rails symbolize the eternal flow of time. Jeongdongjin, the place where the hourglass was erected, is an area east of the road milestone in front of Gwanghwamun in Seoul. Thus, at the summer solstice, it is the area where the sun rises first in the easternmost part of the Korean Peninsula.