Want to Learn Lacquering and Metal Craft at Yongsan Craft Center?

Recruitment of Regular Course Students at Yongsan Craft Center

6 Fields: Lacquerware, Metal, Paper, Chilbo, Textile, Ceramics - 30 Classes

From the 20th, 4-6 Students per Class, First-Come-First-Served via Yongsan Craft Center Website and Phone

Courses Held from July 4th for 5-10 Weeks at the 3rd Floor Craft Learning Center

Yongsan-gu (District Mayor Park Hee-young) is opening 30 classes across 6 fields for the Yongsan Craft Center summer semester regular courses and is currently recruiting students ahead of operation.

From the 20th, 4 to 6 students per class will be recruited on a first-come-first-served basis via the Yongsan Craft Center website or by phone.

The summer semester regular courses will start on July 4th and run for 5 to 10 weeks per course at the Craft Learning Center on the 3rd floor of the Craft Center. Tuition fees, including material costs, range from 70,000 to 400,000 KRW, and students can take home the works they complete.

The curriculum includes ▲Lacquerware (making lacquered soban trays and geonchil sculptures (mountains)) ▲Metal (gold relief carving, silver rings, pure silver letters, jewelry) ▲Paper (folk painting, antique hanji furniture and hanji accessories) ▲Chilbo (making landscapes, wire chilbo, making accessories, color firing) ▲Textile (traditional embroidery, mesh embroidery, and traditional knots) ▲Ceramics (wheel throwing).

For this education, 16 masters who are experts in lacquerware, metal, paper, chilbo, textile, and ceramics crafts and currently active in the Yongsan Craft Center workshops will serve as instructors. This is to directly oversee the transmission of traditional crafts.

Park Hee-young, Mayor of Yongsan-gu, said, “With the lifting of social distancing, many foreign tourists are visiting Itaewon and Hannam-dong areas, and interest in our culture is high. We will continue to widely promote the excellence of traditional crafts to foreign tourists and develop various programs that allow direct experience.”

The Yongsan Craft Center is located near Exit 3 of Hangangjin Station on Subway Line 6. It has 3 basement floors and 4 above-ground floors with a total floor area of 2,800㎡, including a craft product sales hall (1st floor), ceramics and hanbok experience center (2nd floor), craft learning center and workshops (3rd floor), and exhibition hall (4th floor), and hosts various craft exhibitions.

It operates every day from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. except Mondays, which are closed days.

Currently, the 1st-floor craft product sales hall is hosting the “Gyeyangchungman” exhibition themed on lotus leaves by ceramic artist Kim Kwang-il, and the 4th-floor exhibition hall is holding the 2023 regular rental exhibition.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.