2024-06-18 23:00:10
The gateway to a ‘therapeutic forest’ wealthy in phytoncide manufacturing
Final yr, the Ministry of Agriculture, Meals and Rural Affairs was chosen once more as a ‘greatest village’.
A rustic meal made with seasonal elements grown straight from dwelling.
There are over 40 expertise packages together with woodworking workshops.
The summer time warmth has begun in earnest. The Korea Meteorological Administration predicts that the wet season will start on Jeju Island from the nineteenth. When the climate turns into sizzling and humid, it’s simple to get irritated or really feel drained even over small issues. In extreme circumstances, it could trigger dizziness. It’s a ‘warmth stress response’ that happens when repeatedly uncovered to warmth.
In occasions like these, it’s extra essential to maintain your physique and thoughts wholesome. There are lots of methods to do that, however discovering rural areas close to cities can be an efficient methodology. For those who go to a cool forest, get pleasure from forest bathing, and expertise rural life leisurely, stress will naturally be relieved.
● Jathyanggi Inexperienced Village positioned on a forest path full of apricot bushes
On the twelfth of this month, when the perceived temperature exceeded 30 levels in most areas of the nation, I visited ‘Jat Hyanggi Blue Village’ in Sang-myeon, Gapyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do. The executive district is Haenghyeon 1-ri. It is usually referred to as apricot tree, which is written in Chinese language characters for ‘apricot tree (杏) hill (峴)’. It’s named so as a result of there are numerous apricot bushes within the surrounding space. In keeping with village residents, when the apricots ripen in earnest across the finish of this month, a spectacular sight unfolds as if vibrant yellow lights are turned on within the inexperienced forest.
This place is the gateway to the ‘pine tree scented inexperienced forest’, well-known by its nickname ‘therapeutic forest’. It is because to get to the Pine Perfume Inexperienced Forest from Gapyeong-gun, you must cross by means of the village. Jathyanggi Inexperienced Forest is a leisure forest positioned between Chukryeong Mountain (876 m above sea stage) and Seori Mountain (834 m), which kinds the border between Gapyeong-gun and Namyangju Metropolis. In keeping with the Gyeonggi Province Forest Setting Analysis Institute, that is the place with the best phytoncide focus among the many 15 forest resorts in Gyeonggi Province. Phytoncide manufacturing is particularly energetic between June and October, when summer time begins in earnest.
It took 1 hour and half-hour to get to Jathyanggi Inexperienced Village by automobile from the Dong-A Ilbo workplace in Gwanghwamun, within the heart of Seoul, avoiding rush hour. For those who use the subway, you need to go from Sangbong Station on the Gyeongchun Line to Cheongpyeong Station after which take a taxi. For those who take the bus, take quantity 1330 through Cheongnyangni, Guri, Maseok, Daeseongri, and Cheongpyeong, get off at Cheongpyeong Terminal, after which take a taxi. For those who enter it in Naver instructions, it will likely be launched as a distance inside 2:half-hour.
Whenever you take a automobile and drive by means of the Naebu Ring Highway, Northern Expressway, Shin Gyeongchun-ro, and Gyeongchun-ro, after which take Chuknyeong-ro, you will note Iljumun Gate with an indication saying ‘Cheonjimun.’ That is the doorway to Jat Hyanggi Inexperienced Village. This gate was constructed 7 years in the past with the assistance of villagers. It accommodates the intention to reside by working towards the thought of ‘Cheon, Earth and Man’, which is the framework of Japanese philosophy and seems within the fable of Dangun.
● Lodging-food-experience amenities, the most effective village within the nation
Jathyanggi Inexperienced Village was named one of many ‘Greatest Villages’ chosen by the Ministry of Agriculture, Meals and Rural Affairs final yr. Eutteumchon is an analysis certification given by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry since 2013 to solely people who have obtained first grade in three areas together with lodging, meals, and expertise packages amongst rural expertise resort villages throughout the nation.
Jathyanggi Inexperienced Village maintained its standing for 3 years after turning into a high village for the primary time in 2020, and obtained the consideration of being chosen once more within the re-examination final yr. Final yr, 329 locations throughout the nation utilized, and solely 32 turned high villages. Presently, among the many 1,178 rural expertise resort villages throughout the nation (as of the top of 2022), solely 60 are greatest villages.
Jathyanggi Inexperienced Village additionally received the third place excellence award on the ‘Wonderful Village Case Contest’ carried out by the Nationwide Rural Expertise and Recreation Village Council final yr. As well as, in 2021, it received a bronze medal at Nonghyup’s ‘Clear and Lovely Rural Village Creation Contest’, and in 2020, it was chosen as a superb village on the ‘Hope Mountain Village Group Contest’ of the Korea Forest Service and Korea Forestry Promotion Company.
Consistent with its repute, Jathyanggi Inexperienced Village has comfy lodging and a restaurant (Cheonjigwan) and operates over 40 totally different expertise packages.
The duplex sort lodging is a picket home (6 buildings) massive sufficient to comfortably accommodate 5 to six adults. Cooking and bathing amenities have been additionally cleanly maintained. Lodging amenities can be found to most of the people in addition to these experiencing rural tourism. Relying on the room, the speed ranges from 100,000 received (for 4 individuals. Weekdays) to 150,000 received (weekends), however varies relying on the season.
There’s an outside swimming pool behind the lodging, so you may get pleasure from water play. It is a superb summer time recreation facility for households who go to right here on trip or on weekends.
The spacious and comfy restaurant serves quite a lot of contemporary facet dishes made out of seasonal elements grown in a buffet type. On the twelfth, when the reporter visited, there was a rustic desk full of chilly cucumber soup, which was refreshing and spicy, and over 10 sorts of seasoned seasonal greens.
● From woodworking therapeutic to creating pine nut scented luggage.
There have been about 40 expertise packages as various because the variety of sorts. The woodworking therapeutic workshop and the pine pine berry cracking expertise utilizing pine nuts, a particular product of Gapyeong-gun, making pine nut scented luggage, and pine nut-made sausages, can be found all yr spherical. Particularly, the Woodworking Therapeutic Workshop had a separate two-story workshop full of amenities and supplies for making all the things from bread slicing boards to high-quality wooden pens, gentle bins, and mailboxes.
Right here, you may expertise making issues similar to bread slicing boards, ballpoint pens, temper lights, and so on. in about an hour. It’s a course of that features understanding the properties of wooden – trimming a picket slicing board utilizing sandpaper – engraving a reputation or your individual design utilizing wooden burning – ending with oil.
There are lots of packages that run seasonally. From March to December, expertise packages similar to making pine nut and purple pepper paste, injeolmi, and kalguksu are operated. From April to November, actions similar to making pine nut tofu and digging up potatoes are carried out, and from August to February of the next yr, numerous agricultural merchandise similar to candy potatoes and peppers are harvested and kimchi making are carried out.
Particularly, among the many packages that run from April to November, when winter begins, ‘Chuknyeongsan Forest Therapeutic’ is included, which entails trekking by means of a inexperienced pine forest accompanied by village residents as forest guides. You possibly can get pleasure from forest bathing when phytoncide manufacturing is most energetic.
There’s additionally a program referred to as ‘Therapeutic Expertise with Forests and Bushes’ that packages forest therapeutic, consuming, and slicing board making experiences. For teams of 20 or extra, the schedule begins at 10:00 am and ends at 3:00 pm on weekdays, and prior session is required on weekends.
● Vacationer points of interest are concentrated across the village.
Along with the Jathyanggi Inexperienced Forest, round Jathyanggi Inexperienced Village, there are a number of vacationer points of interest price visiting, such because the Backyard of Morning Calm, Petite France, Jaraseom Island, Nami Island, and Unaksan Mountain, all inside a 30-minute drive away.
The Backyard of Morning Calm is a big backyard the place you may see over 5,000 species of vegetation on a 330,000㎡ website on the foot of Chuknyeong Mountain. It is usually a well known location for filming TV dramas and films. It takes lower than 10 minutes by automobile from Jathyanggi Blue Village. In keeping with the ‘2023 Gapyeong-gun Social Survey Report’ revealed by Gapyeong-gun on the finish of final yr, it ranked second after Jaraseom amongst vacationer points of interest within the county really helpful by Gapyeong-gun residents to outsiders.
Petite France, that means ‘Petite France,’ is a theme park that opened in 2008. Constructed on a 110,000㎡ website north of Cheongpyeong Lake, you may get pleasure from quite a lot of cultural experiences, performances, and meals from Europe, particularly France.
A big live performance corridor opens each summer time, and Jaraseom Island, which is taken into account a sacred place for many who get pleasure from tenting, might be reached in about 20 minutes. As well as, Nami Island, Namsan-myeon, Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do, which is neighboring, is lower than half-hour away.
As these particular options of Pine Tree Village turn out to be recognized, the variety of guests is growing. The quantity decreased considerably from 4,127 in 2020, the primary yr it was chosen as a high village, to 2,292 and a couple of,390 in 2021 and 2022 when COVID-19 was rampant, however elevated considerably once more to three,764 final yr.
Jathyanggi Inexperienced Village Steering Committee Chairman Lee Jun-gi (head of Haenghyeon 1-ri) stated, “Our village, additionally referred to as Apricotjae, is a spot the place residents who worth the preservation of the pure atmosphere and folks tradition collect collectively,” and added, “Quite a lot of packages and comfy amenities are ready. “It’s appropriate for having fun with as a household or group,” he stated.
Reporter Hwang Jae-seong [email protected]
2024-06-18 23:00:10