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blunder1983 · Joined: 12 Apr 2005

I was clicking my heels at Dohwa station today waiting for the train to arrive and looked at their culture info board.

On it I saw something called the Asan Prehistoric Village. Peaked my interest, but my Lonely Planet has nothing on it. Anyone been?

blunder1983 · Joined: 12 Apr 2005

42 views an no responses! Surely someone must no something about it.

indytrucks · Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Location: The Shelf

The only thing I can think of is the Oeam Folk Village about 10 mins outside of Asan. Pretty nice there, actually. You can find out about it here. I reckon Prehistoric Village is a classic bit of mis-translation.

blunder1983 · Joined: 12 Apr 2005

Aww the archeologist in me was hoping for ruins of some sort. Still it looks pretty neat. I'll head there next time i'm over that way.

Thanks for the info!

mithridates · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 12:38 am Post subject:

I see artifact #537 is a half-sunken pillar from the ruins of a temple during the Chosun era, and that's located in Ansan.

flakfizer · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 5:49 am Post subject:

Is that on the pink line? I went there once and was disappointed about as much as one can be. There is nothing there worth beans. It was my sister's idea to go there and we razzed her mercilessly after seeing that place. All that is there is a shallow hole (from a dig) with nothing in it anymore. There are pictures of what was there. Then there are a few sample dwellings (pit dwellings, I believe). All very phony looking.

flakfizer · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 6:02 am Post subject:

oops. The place I mentioned may be different. Here is one of the three photos I took there.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

ajuma · Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Location: Anywere but Seoul!!