Constituted and preserved as a Folk Culture Village, this town is originally the wooden furniture structure of the Korean traditional-style house. The shape of the Korean traditional-style house is long and open ㄱ shape centering on the garden. A bamboo fence intertwined with bamboos and Korean lespedezas and an alley getting joined on well ordered stone walls show the Korean traditional country. At the Folk Culture Town, ‘Munhwa Weekend School' has opened since 2007. The Munhwa Weekend School' is an inspection and field trip school where children can foster sensitivity through experiences in our traditional lives. It holds at every second and fourth Saturday from March to June for four months and is progressed for the elementary students.

E- Folk Culture Town opens Mandri Festival every year. 'Mandri' means the final weeding of the rice field. 'Mandri' is a labor ballad that has sung during the mid July by the lunar calendar in the cleaning of weed. Mid July by the lunar calendar means the high peak season of farming, as you know the terms "makes summer.” On the other hand, 'Rambling through July' and 'Fast-running August' terms means too busy situation ahead harvest months and also contains the enjoyment that can rest for a short while. In mid July by the lunar calendar, a farmhouse set a rich breakfast table and gave some pocket money and holidays to the farmhands and workers. This is called "in mid July by the lunar calendar we receive money" and calms down the exhausting farm work as the play of mid July.

Mandri Festival starts from the weeding work of heavy-duty farmhands at 6,000㎡ field in front of Seochang Folk Culture Town. When the heading instrument player of folk music playing group beats a drum, a janggu and a gong in front of the line, heavy-duty farmhands follow a boaster and sing the back sound according to the previous sound and wish for fruitful farming. After the weeding work, heavy-duty farmhands follow the folk music playing group and come back into the town on a bull's back after going around the field. In the town, after inhabitants, heavy-duty farmhands and folk music playing group have a big banquet all together, they end the climax. Through the Mandri Festival, we can see the wisdom of our ancestors who farmed together with the cooperative spirit.Displaying the harmony and unity of the inhabitants who all wished for a fruitful year while working hard on their farms.

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