Gapjae Traditional Folklore Exhibition Hall

More than 4,000 exhibits are on display at the Gapjae Traditional Folklore Exhibition Hall, which opened on Oct.31, 2016, in a former school in Goheung County, South Jeolla Province. Goheung County provides rental and maintenance costs for buildings. Lee Ki-jae, director of the exhibition hall, has provided the county with 4,000 folk and craft items that he collected himself. Among the items on exhibition are daily items used by noble ladies and their husbands, as well as examples of agricultural and ordinary household tools. There is also a display of how telephones and electricity use developed over time, and a variety of books from both the Japanese colonial period and the post-war era. These provide good opportunities for reading about local culture. Before the hall opened, Lee operated a similar exhibition hall on his own for more than ten years. It was quite some distance from Gapjae Hall, but it was impossible for him to maintain the many artworks himself, so he donated his entire collection to Goheung County. In 1986, Lee was employed as a teacher. That year, he visited his home