The area of Bukchon Hanok Village is the only place in Seoul where hundreas of traditional Korean houses(Hanoks). Here is an important area for culture and the arts, with its number of museums, craft workshops and historic landmarks.
The Buchon Traditional Culture Center, located in Bukchon Hanok Village, offers traditional cultural programs on calligraphy, tea ceremony, Chinese characters, and pansori(musical storytelling), as well as traditional crafts classes on natural dyeing, black bamboo craft, maedeup(decorative knot craft), jogakbo(patchwork), etc. It also holds lectures on hanok, movie screening, and concerts.
Buchon Hanok Hall exhibits the works by Han Sang Soo, a master artian of emboidery designated as Intangible Cultural Asset No.80, as well as embroidery related relics and folk artifacts that he collected. It opened in Sep, 2005 to promote the outstanding quality and appeal of traditional Korean embrodery, and consists of exhibition halls, an audido-visual education room and a museum shop.
Baek inje's House in Gahoe-dong area in Buchon is a leading set of buildings from the japanese colonial era, in Which the unique style of modern hanok remains untouched.