The village of Gaesil is known as the village of the Seonsan Kim clan. It was established by the descendants of Kim Jong-jik (pen-name: Jeompiljae, 1431-1492), a leading Korean Neo-Confucian scholar and the founder of the Yeongnam Sarim faction during the mid-Joseon period. Boasting over 300 years of tradition, the village is home to sixty households as well as a number of cultural heritages including the head house of Kim Jong-jik (Provincial Folk Material No. 62), Doyeonjae (Provincial Cultural Heritage material No. 111), which is the old village school, and the printing woodblocks for a collection of literary works including Yijonrok (a book about the life and achievements of Kim’s father Kim Suk-ja) written by Kim Jong-jik (Provincial Tangible Cultural Heritage No. 175).
The residents have renovated the village’s earthen walls and hanok houses into a current hanok village, and also run various hands-on experience programs including a hanok stay, a farm product cultivation program, and traditional etiquette and games, thereby offering urban travelers an opportunity to experience a truly rural lifestyle. Chuwoojae House, situated in the heart of the village of Gaesil, has two buildings that are available for rent including the bonchae, which is a single-family house, and the sarangchae, which is a detached building). All guestrooms are equipped with a bathroom and cooking facilities. In particular, the bonchae is heated with a furnace. Guests can use the village public parking lot, but there is also a separate parking lot not far from the house.
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