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During the Chuseok holiday, Incheon City operates major museums and art galleries and provides free exhibitions so that citizens can easily access local history and culture.
Incheon City announced on the 23rd that the Incheon City Museum, Songam Art Museum, Geomdan Prehistory Museum, Korean Immigration History Museum, and Incheon Urban History Museum will operate normally from the 24th to the 27th, the Chuseok holiday.
These museums and art galleries operate various exhibitions and events free of charge during this holiday season where you can explore Incheon's history, culture, and art.
At the Incheon City Museum, a special exhibition ‘Incheon’s Intellectuals Who Reveal Joseon’ will be held.
You can get a glimpse into the lives and studies of scholars and thinkers who settled and worked in Incheon through about 100 pieces of data, including related ancient documents, focusing on figures who led the intellectual life of Incheon in the late Joseon Dynasty, such as Byeongwa Lee Hyeong-sang, Sonam Yun Dong-gyu, and Hagok Jeong Je-du.
A special exhibition, ‘The Craftsman’s Breath in Wood Grain,’ is held at the Songam Art Museum.
This is an exhibition that highlights the tradition of woodcraft in the Incheon region and the value of intangible cultural heritage, and will feature about 50 works, including Ganghwa bandadori, mother-of-pearl jeonjang, and hwagakjang.
At the Geomdan Prehistory Museum, a special children’s experience exhibition ‘Secrets Hidden in Rocks, Incheon Dolmen Story’ welcomes visitors.
It is an experiential exhibition that introduces everything from the history of megalithic culture to Incheon's dolmen culture in an easy-to-understand manner and allows visitors to touch it for themselves.
You can also experience setting up a dolmen with grave goods and take pictures with the dolmen in the background.
The Korean Immigration History Museum is holding a special exhibition, ‘Days Trapped in Paradise, Records of Korean POWs in the Hawaiian POW Camp’.
It was prepared to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the return to Incheon of 2,700 Korean prisoners of Hawaii who had left their homeland due to conscription and conscription during World War II.
Incheon Urban History Museum is hosting a children’s experiential exhibition ‘Let’s Go! We operate a ‘tidal flat city’.
This is an exhibition where you can learn about the secrets of the tidal flat city along with your 'Spoonbill' friend, and can be viewed by children aged 7 to elementary school accompanied by a guardian.

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The complete translation of ‘Eundae Pyeongo’, which the Eundae Classic Literature Research Institute has been working on for eight years since 2018, has been published. This book, which contains the work of the Seungjeongwon during the Joseon Dynasty, is divided into six rooms and has a total of 1,488 pages. The research institute stated that through this, changes in the Joseon administrative system can be understood.

The National Jinju Museum announced on the 21st that it will hold the largest special exhibition ever, 'My Life Museum', including treasures, from the 22nd to February 28th next year to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the donation by the late Korean-Japanese businessman Duam Kim Yong-du.

Jeju Provincial Council will hold the 1st Jeju K-Culture Strategy Forum at 10 am on the 22nd in the provincial council conference room. This forum, with the theme of 'K-Culture Era, Asking for Jeju's Coordinates', was prepared to diagnose what strategic position Jeju should occupy and seek policy directions as the Korean Wave, including K-pop, K-drama, K-beauty, and K-food, is emerging globally. Former Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Park Yang-woo will serve as moderator, Dongyang University Professor Kim Jeong-tae will deliver the keynote presentation, and discussions will include Kim Seong-min, head of the Seoul Economic Promotion Agency's Beauty Business Division, Kim Jeong-hoon, Jeju National University professor, Kim Hyun-hwan, visiting professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Ryu Il-sun, director of the Culture, Sports and Education Bureau, Jeon Hae-woong, former secretary-general of the Korean Food Promotion Agency, Choi Kwang-ho, CEO of Live Music, and Hwang Kyeong-seon, director of the Provincial Tourism Exchange Bureau. It is hosted by Rep. Kim Bong-hyun of the Democratic Party of Korea and hosted by the Jeju Provincial Council's Culture, Tourism and Sports Committee, and is broadcast live on the Provincial Council's website.

'Three Kingdoms', a practical exchange event where young craftsmen from three countries, who connect Korea's Hanji, China's Seonji, and Japan's Washi, share traditional papermaking techniques and secrets in Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do, will be held for four days starting October 7. Hosted by the Jeonju Millennium Hanji Center of the Jeonju Cultural Foundation and sponsored by Hansol Holdings, this event consists of networking, workshop visits, manufacturing demonstrations/experiences, and exhibitions, and successors from each country will directly give demonstrations and presentations.

Jeondeungsa Temple, located in Ganghwa-gun, Incheon, has been deeply connected to the royal family through the Goryeo and Joseon Dynasties since its founding in 381, and has raised its status as a national temple by storing the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty. In addition to its history of participation in the resistance fight during the Byeonginyangyo period, it possesses six treasures, including the main hall, and is scheduled to be designated as Ganghwa-gun's first scenic spot through deliberation by the National Heritage Committee on the 30th.