This summer was hotter than ever. It was a time when we desperately needed ‘Korean medicine’ to recover our tired bodies and minds. So we prepared it. A special ‘Korean medicine’ for you.
From the largest herbal medicine market in the country where just walking around will make you healthy, to ‘Gyeongokgo’, called the king’s elixir, and ‘Seokcheong’, called the treasure of the autumn mountains, to a special meal for the most precious person in my life.
Let’s recharge our energy with some heavy ‘one-shot’ and welcome the energetic new season, fall.
This week (September 2nd – September 6th), EBS 1TV’s current affairs and cultural program ‘Oriental Medicine Travelogue’ will air as a 5-part series.
Maechon Village, located at the foot of Mt. Boryeon in Namwon, with a beautiful valley where Mt. Goribong towers to the south and Mt. Mundeokbong to the north. A quiet, seemingly ordinary rural village! Is it true that a famous ‘filial son’ lives here?
The main character is Mr. Oh Dong-seop, who built a picturesque thatched house at the foot of Mt. Boryeon and lives there with his 89-year-old mother. After failing in business in the city, he fell in love with the taste of wild tea that he encountered by chance, and 16 years ago, he built a house with his own hands in his hometown and has been living there ever since.
In fact, the Maechon village where Mr. Dong-seop lives is known as the setting for the Joseon Dynasty writer Kim Si-seop’s ‘Manboksajeopogi’. In order to follow the life of Kim Si-seop, whom he has always admired, Mr. Dong-seop has been making tea by roasting tea leaves and maturing them into round lumps.
The person he makes the best tea to and gives it to first is his mother. Two years ago, his mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. His mother is losing her memories one by one. Dong-seop says that he should naturally be filial to his mother, who raised six children while living a poor life.
Today, too, he goes to the market to buy ‘croaker’ to make stew for his mother, who is losing her memory, and spends a belated vacation with her in the valley.
Dong-seop says that there is a time in life. That is why the time that Dong-seop spends with his mother is even more earnest and precious.
We meet the beautiful seasons of filial son Dong-seop, who is creating a house of his dreams with his beloved mother.
Reporter Park Yu-mi Photo = EBS Korea Travel
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2024-09-07 01:03:04