Comments on: Music, Nagan Folk Village and Beolgyo’s Tragic History

By: Wealthy Hyeon Family House | The Marmot's Hole

Wealthy Hyeon Family House | The Marmot's Hole — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:59:14 +0000

[...] photo was taken in March. To learn more about Beolgyo’s history, see this post from October [...]

By: Smee

Smee — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 05:58:45 +0000

Ah, and I’m also curious about the 1994 movie Taebaek Sanmaek. Do you know if any of it was filmed in Beolgyo?

By: Smee

Smee — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:59:32 +0000

Sorry for the big bump. I’m pretty ignorant of Japanese architecture, but I enjoy your posts on that topic. I visited Beolgyo this afternoon, and enjoyed visiting some of the sites. Your pictures turned out great . . . mine look like garbage. I’m curious if you have a link to a decent tourist map of the area. I found one posted on a building, but it was quite inaccurate in parts, and I ended up wandering around aimlessly for quite a while. Of the 16 sites listed on it, I only managed to find 6. I was really keen to visit the Kim Beom-woo home and Joe Jeong-rae’s 생가, but couldn’t find them at all.

I’m not sure how often you come back to Jeollanam-do, but another site that might be worth visiting is the area of Yeongsan-po within the city limits of Naju. Naju is pretty dull, but Yeongsan-po still has a few remnants of Japanese architecture. Seems like Beolgyo and Yeongsan-po are the two biggies down here.

Anyway, a very informative post. You too, Antii.

By: The Marmot’s Hole » Colonial era architecture of Yongsan

The Marmot’s Hole » Colonial era architecture of Yongsan — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:34:40 +0000

[...] Beolgyo [...]

By: Antti

Antti — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:01:07 +0000

Robert, thanks for the report, pics, and the link. Normally, when you link to my place I can count the hits in hundreds, but not this time. What do they say over there, reading sutras to cows…

I see that Beolgyo (”Bulkyo”, 불쿄?) homepage has a detailed description of sites that Jo used in the novel; were they marked so on the spot, or did you have a guide to explain all that? In one mag article couple of years back it was indicated that the reason for the lack of any signs to indicate the novel locations was perhaps the still lingering feelings about the killings during the Yeosu mutiny and Korean War.

By: Nomad

Nomad — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:40:43 +0000

Robert,

Excellent pics once again…please do keep them coming.

By: Andy Jackson

Andy Jackson — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 08:18:47 +0000

Nice stuff.

As usual, don’t let the number of comments be the determination of how interesting a piece is.

By: sewing

sewing — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:30:37 +0000

Thanks for all the photos and clips, Robert. Now I just have to get to a computer that has speakers so I can hear the lovely music….