About the settlement
Nagan-eupseong rises
above the plane at Nagan-myeon, Suncheon-city, Jeollanam-do Province. The
settlement is
one of the several Upseongs in Korea. The Upseong is
a town inside
of fortress. There are generally located a few public facilities such as Gaeksa,
the house accommodating the Royal Emissary, and Dongheon, the District Office, at
the center of Upseong. All of the 142 private houses of
Nagan-upseong with the land of 223,108 §³ are
thatch-roofed, which make a peculiar townscape in harmony with the
rectangular stone rampart (height about 4m, perimeter 1,384m) supposedly dating from the 15th century.
The rampart was built for protecting the town against the Japanese
aggression. The
settlement is recently
in the news by being the location
of a Korean film, 'Spring in My Hometown' which is appraised as
highly artistic. |
Settlement
Layout VOD
The film 'Spring
in My Hometown' which
has been shot in this village. VOD
Gangneung
MBC Radio (broadcasted
12. 5. 2006) Gangneung
MBC Radio (broadcasted
12. 12. 2006)
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