Recently, I was able to take time to hang out with my old friends and their spouses, including my wife, in Jeongseon-gun County, located in the southern part of Gangwon Province, which is one of the birthplaces of the most popular and well-known traditional Korean folk song 'Arirang' around the world. As a matter of fact, there are several types of Arirang Song in Korea, mostly similar, but different in their texts, melodies and rhythms, respectively. Experts, however, generally agree that the Jeongseon Arirang is pretty close to the original form of the Song of Arirang, dated back to some 600 years ago.
The above picture taken from the Jeongseon Arari Chon, a kind of folk village which was established by the county authorities, shows emotional mood of the old Korean-style village, an eternal birthplace in our heart.
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