A few days before everybody headed back home we went to Andong(안동) village. This village is very nice since one can directly experience rural and long ago Korea. To the left is my uncle with a tractor called kyoungungi (경운기) these things are great, can see them a lot in the rural areas and once and awhile you can see them in the city when the farmers drive them instead of their cars. The picture to the right is not a house but it is a gate, which surrounds the house. There is rooms in it and they were usually used as a place to raise livestock, storage, or if the homeowner was wealthy it was used as servant quarters. Once inside one of these gates, there is open area where one's daily life takes place. Cooking, washing clothes, gardening, drying out herbs,bark,roots, etc.. for medicine (picture to the right).

The interesting thng about this folk village is that it still is a functional village. What this means is people still live here. Other folk villages throughout the country are just buildings, no people except for visitors and employees. Because of this situation at Andong many of the families living here have turned their houses into businesses to earn some extra money. So one house might sell straw shoes (짚신), while another may sell rice wine and food. So overall its not a bad deal, but they (the people of Andong) do have rules, regarding preservation, so the village will retains its folk village status, so no there will not be a starbucks coming soon.