Sangju City Offers Unique Wood Culture Experience Center Programs for the New Year

Family New Year "Wish" Woodworking Keepsakes for All Ages
"Wooden Pollack" to Ward Off Misfortune and Invite Good Luck
Open as Usual During the Lunar New Year Holiday, February 14 to 16
Offering Around 50 Different Woodworking Experience Programs

To mark the New Year of 2026, the Sangju Wood Culture Experience Center in Sangju, North Gyeongsang Province, is offering a variety of new hands-on programs for visitors, including the "Aekmagi Myeongtae Making" activity, which allows them to ward off misfortune for the year and pray for good fortune.

The "Aekmagi Myeongtae Making" program reinterprets the traditional practice of hanging pollack to ward off bad luck as a woodworking experience. Participants can complete a piece that embodies their New Year wishes by drawing on and refining a pollack-shaped wooden model that highlights the warm texture of wood.

'Aekmagi Mokgong Myeongtae' to ward off a year's misfortune and wish for good fortune / By Kim Ihwan

In addition, the center has further strengthened its offerings for children and family visitors. It has prepared various new contents such as making a capybara-shaped piggy bank that children can easily assemble and decorate, and crafting wooden mood lamps that add to the indoor atmosphere with soft lighting.

Besides these, the center operates around 50 different woodworking experience programs, and offers a wide range of activities where participants can make practical wooden items for everyday use themselves, such as bookstands and wooden cutting boards.

The Wood Culture Experience Center will be open as usual during the Lunar New Year holiday from February 14 to 16 (closed on the 17th and 18th), and visitors can join the programs either by on-site registration or by making a reservation in advance. For detailed information, including operating schedules, inquiries can be made directly to the Wood Culture Experience Center.

An Jaehyun, head of the Forest and Greenery Division, said, "Just as our ancestors wisely hung pollack to ward off misfortune, I hope that citizens will spend the year 2026 safely and happily with the wooden pollack they make themselves."

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