Yongin City Selects Two Sites for 'Traditional Hanok Branding Project'

[Suwon Ilbo=Park No-hun Reporter] Yongin City announced on the 25th that it has been selected for the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism's 'Traditional Hanok Branding Project.'

The Traditional Hanok Branding Project is a business supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to enable individual hanoks designated as hanok experience businesses or hanok experience villages and areas to operate experience programs in order to develop traditional hanoks into traditional culture experience accommodation facilities.

In this year's competition, a total of 47 sites nationwide were selected, including 3 in Gyeonggi Province. Of these, the city selected two sites: 'Yejik Hanok Experience Village' located in Ho-dong, Cheorin-gu, and 'A Day at Hanok - Yerang' located in Jubuk-ri, Yangji-myeon, Cheorin-gu, and will receive 20 million won in program operation expenses.

In particular, 'A Day at Hanok - Yerang' was selected as a project target for two consecutive years following last year's selection.

The two selected sites plan to operate various traditional culture experience programs linked to hanoks, such as traditional knot craft experiences, traditional food experiences, and traditional tea experiences, through December with a total project budget of 50 million won including national and city funds.

A city official stated, "We hope that tourists will experience traditional culture in beautiful hanoks and spend time healing," and added, "We will continue to make efforts so that citizens and tourists can enjoy Yongin's diverse tourism resources."