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[Address: Moongyeong-eup, Moongyeong]

¡à Moongyeong porcelain

As no record is found in old documents that there was a porcelain furnace in Moongyeong, we should divine the age from the pieces remaining at furnace sites. Seeing that the furnace site assumed to be the end of Koryo is found around Noeun-ri and Gansong-ri, Dongro-myeon, it seems to begin at that time. Cheongja here was coated with dark green enamel, and sagged saucer. It shows the characteristics of Jojil Cheongja manufactured in the 12th century.
The porcelain in Moongyeong was mainly used by common people, and it expresses pure attraction and simple motion of the race as there is no decoration and natural. Also the reason why it gets more attention is the invisible efforts of Moongyeong ceramists who would like to succeed and progress tradition with traditional firewood furnace and food spinning wheel.





Moongyeong is mountain area located at the south of Sobaek Mountains, and has ideal gap of temperature between day and night and limestone soil for apple. So Moongyeong apples have an excellent sweet taste and store well, because their flesh is thick. Their high-quality apples are diversifiable from apples of other regions. is the apples are forwarded through each farming association and producer group, and sold at joint market.
(Apple farming 1,859 households, 1,350ha annual production: 23,369ton)
Busa September~April of the next year




Traditional folk liquor from 500 years ago that Hwang Hee, who was a prime minister in Chosun Dynasty, enjoyed. It is pure rice wine with unique color, taste, and fragrance and no aftereffects as being 18 degrees.
(Appointed to Gyeongsangbuk-do Intangible Cultural Asset No.18)
Yellowish, fragrance of pine tree leaves, piquancy. It is a healthy high-quality liquor with excellent medical effect. 1 doe of wine is produced with 1 doe of rice. It is so heavy that it is almost sticky. From the result of minute analysis of National Tax Service Technical Service Institute, it was estimated to be the most excellent among all folk liquors in taste, fragrance and color as well as quality. The origin of this liquor is home-made liquor transmitted in the family of Jangsu Hwang since Hwang Jeong, the great-grandson of Bangchon Hwang Hee in the early stage of Chosun Dynasty settled down here and lived in Daeha-ri, Sanbuk-myeon, Moongyeong.





[Address: Hogye-myeon, Moongyeong]
Cheongryeojang is said to be good at neuralgia of the old from long time ago, and according to Bonchogangmok, the medical book by Lee Shi Jin in the 16th century, it is legendary filial piety cane being recorded as ¡°Cheongryeojang prevents palsy and even cures palsy easily if walking with it.¡± As being made with 1-year-old goosefoot, it is light and hard. Also the natural pattern is so elegant that it is a great gift for old parents. It was appointed as a royal gift that the president grants to senior citizen older than 100 years old on every parent¡¯s day and senior citizen¡¯s day in 1992. And when Queen Elizabeth visited Andong, Gyeongsangbuk-do, it was given to her as a souvenir.




Suseok in Moongyeong is qualified in lots of conditions of transparency, wrinkles, bends, hardness, color and abrasion. The main place of production is around Gurang-ri (Nongamcheon). Nongamcheon Suseok is distributed broadly from Sangnae-ri at the southern edge of Baekhwa Mountain to Gurang-ri following Young River. This Suseok is well known as Sansujongseok, Pyeongwonseok, Pokposeok, Hosuseok, Dohyeongseok, and Chusangseok etc. in the whole country. Besides it, between Sanggoe and Wonbuk-ri following the valley at the eastern edge of Heeyang Mountain, Sansugyeongseok, Mulyangseok, and Yeonbongwon Sanseok can be found, but it has fewer glazes. Also, Byeonsaengam Suseok is found in the back mountain of Nongam Elementary School, colored amsuseok in Gimyongri valley, Sanbuk-myeon, amethyst, white crystal and black crystal in Dangpo and Galpyeong. However, it is hard find.




As there are Seokhaek cells(à´ú·á¬øà) in pears, it stimulates digestion, neutralizes alcohol, and solves meat poison. It stimulates secreting body fluids. So it quenches thirst and reduces fever.
The pear farm in Hogye-ri, Hogye-myeon is a good place to raise pears as it has clay soil, long-term daylight, and severe gap in temperature day and night on the field spread to southeast backing against Ojeong Mountain (805m). Ssangsaem pear has a sweetness of 13¡Æ¡­14¡Æ, less than other pear and good to eat because it has less Seokhaek cells. The soil is a typical yellow soil. So pear tree grows well, and it stores well. Especially, more than 5 ton¡¯s of fertilizer are used for every 300 pyeong every year, and it is uncontaminated as decreasing agriculture medicines by covering all fruits with bag. 881ton are produced from 60§µ¡¯s land.




[Address: 222-1, Goyo 1-ri, Moongyeong-eup, Moongyeong]
Becasue they are made with high-quality sweet rice, beans and sesame etc. grown with clean water of Moongyeong, it has excellent fragrance, taste and color. As it is soft and convenient to eat, it is spotlighted as a snack for children as well as for national holidays and banquets. It is traditional cracker revived for the taste of modern people based on traditional technique. It is also called as Byeongsa because the shape is like a cocoon.





[Address: Mojeon-dong, Moongyeong]

¢ÃActivated Carbon Pork

* More delicious than other pork meats as it has less fat and foul smell by feeding activated carbon in provender