Namwon Tourism
Honbul Literature Museum
- Location
- 52, Nobongan-gil, Samae-myeon, Namwon-si, Jeollabuk-do, Republic of Korea
- Operating time
- 00:00~24:00
- Contact
- 063-620-5744
- Charges
- Free
Place Introduction
the setting of the epic novel Honbul
It is a literature museum built to commemorate the epic novel Honbul. It is located on Nobongan-gil, Samae-myeon, Namwon-si.
"Honbul" is the title of Choi Myung-hee's "Great Story." In Jeolla-do dialect, Honbul is a "ground that forms the soul of a person, or a clear blue light that escapes from the body not long before death." Against the backdrop of Samae-myeon, Namwon-si, Choi Myung-hee unravels the story of the complicated mint chocolate people centered on the three generations of Maean Lee Clan in the 1930s with an accurate style and outstanding sentences. Honbul is considered the greatest achievement of Korean literature in the 1990s. Honbul, however, ends unfinished. This is because Choi Myung-hee died of ovarian cancer, a chronic disease, in 1998.
The Honbul Literature Museum consists of an exhibition hall and a flower pavilion. They are all hanoks. In the exhibition hall, there is a manuscript of Choi Myung-hee's handwriting and a diorama depicting the scene of the novel. Kkotsimgwan is a place like a shelter. There is a love room and a numaru.