GOURMET TOUR OF TRADITIONAL MARKETS

As a city well-known for its diverse medicinal herbs like milk vetch root (hwanggi), angelica (danggui), wild greens, and various grains, Jecheon is full of healthy foods with special applications. The traditional markets provide steamed buns, sweet jellies, and donuts stuffed with medicinal herbs, while Yakseon Food Street serves a table full of healthy options including spicy stir-fired chicken with hwanggi, or medicinal beef bulgogi. Don’t forget to add red fish cake and sticky rice cake to your menu.

Gyo-dong Folk Painting Village

Embracing the Jecheon Hyanggyo Local Confucian School, this village has decorated its walls with Korean traditional folded paintings in 7 themes. Each mural, full of wit and humor, shows its unique character in rich and splendid colors. They include: a magpie and a tiger (iconic objects in Korean folk art), Munjado (a painting that depicts letters with embroidery), Pungsokdo (a cultural landscape) that reveals the daily lives of ordinary Joseon people, and so on. In addition, the small workshops here offer art experience programs to draw folk paintings on fans and make pottery cups.

Location 18, Yongducheon-ro 20-gil, Jecheon-si, Chungcheongbuk-do | Telephone 010-4877-3275 / 010-8007-7736

Jecheon’s Traditional Markets

Three markets (Jungang / Naeto / Dongmun Market) are located at only a 10-minute distance by car from Jecheon Station. When you try the red fish cakes, which are as spicy as their intense color, it’s recommended to add fried foods and gimbap as side dishes. Hwanggi-rice steamed buns (made from hwanggi-infused water and rice harvested from around the Uirimji Reservoir) and handmade sticky rice cake are other special foods to try.

Let’s indulge in a table full of healthy foods containing medicinal herbs. Spicy stir-fried chicken (dakgalbi), beef bulgogi including Jecheon hwanggi, steamed rice with white dandelions, nutritional hot pot rice garnished with sweet potatoes, beans, ginkgo nuts, and more dishes complete the balance between taste and health.

Most popular menu items : Hwanggi dakgalbi, Yakseon beef bulgogi, steamed rice with white dandelions

Location Between Doksun-ro 11-gil and Uibyeong-daero 13-gil, Jecheon-si, Chungcheongbuk-do

This market right in front of Jecheon Station is remarkable for foods made from local medicinal herbs/specialties. Visitors can try sweet yanggaeng (traditional jelly made of red beans or chestnuts) with mulberry leaves and angelica, savory donuts including milk vetch roots, and a big acorn songpyeon (a half-moon shaped rice cake) containing bountiful nuts, after looking around the local specialty stores at the market entrance.

Daily Market / Periodical Market : Open on days where the last digit is 3 or 8

Location 3-1, Naeto-ro 28-gil, Jecheon-si, Chungcheongbuk-do

JECHEON’S FOOD

“To rice boiled in water infused with milk vetch root and shiitake mushrooms, add cooked herbs/ vegetables as the main ingredients including milk vetch root, acanthopanax senticosus, and mulberry leaves, and then mix all of this with herbal red pepper paste. That’s how Yakcherak Bibimbap brings us the rich flavor of nature.”

Yakcherak The Joy of Medicinal Vegetables

Restaurants with “Yakcherak” (the Jecheon-si government’s certification) have introduced dishes that contain 11 medicinal herbs as the main ingredients and 4 medicinal spices (hwanggi soy bean sauce, danggui red pepper paste, pesto with medicinal herbs, and mulberry leaf salt). Dishes like yakchaetongbab (medicinal cooked rice with vegetables), Ulguemtteokgalbi (grilled short rib patties with turmeric), and Ssamchaejeongsik (Korean set menu with vegetables wraps), as well as unique restorative menus are available for tourists at every restaurant.

JECHEON’S HOTELS

“The hotels stand in spots that look down on the entire Cheongpungho Lake area in a single view, and there’s no time to be bored, because tourist attractions can be found nearby. This private spa resort surrounded by a primeval forest is a gift from nature.”

RESOM FOREST

A private healing resort surrounded by a dense primeval forest. Equipped with 200 separate house-type villa rooms and 250 boutique hotel rooms (which will open in 2021), the resort complex also has a trail with pinewood colonies and wild flowers. The “Have 9 Spa” is an experience program that combines naturopathy, oriental-medicinal therapy, and other unique therapies, while the Private Stone Spa and Infinity Pool are the most popular facilities. A private healing resort surrounded by a dense primeval forest. Equipped with 200 separate housetype villa rooms and 250 boutique hotel rooms (which will open in 2021), the resort complex also has a trail with pinewood colonies and wild flowers. The “Have 9 Spa” is an experience program that combines naturopathy, Oriental-medicinal therapy, and other unique therapies, while the Private Stone Spa and Infinity Pool are the most popular facilities.

Location 1798, Cheongpungho-ro, Cheongpungmyeon, Jecheon-si, Chungcheongbuk-do | Telephone 043-640-7000 www.cheongpungresort.co.kr

Location 1763, Cheongpungho-ro, Cheongpungmyeon, Jecheon-si, Chungcheongbuk-do | Telephone 043-640-7100 www.cheongpungresort.co.kr

Location 1248, Oksunbong-ro, Susan-myeon, Jecheon-si, Chungcheongbuk-do | Telephone 043-648-0480 www.clubes.co.kr