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Seoul Sights

Mokin Museum

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  • Address
    • Cheongseok-gil Insadong
  • Transport
    • line 3 to Anguk, Exit 6
  • Phone
    • 02 722 5066
  • Price
    • adult/child W5000/3000
  • Hours
    • 10am-7pm

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Lonely Planet review for Mokin Museum

Mokin are carved and painted wooden figures and decorative motifs that were used to decorate sangyeo (funeral carriages). Carved by humble village craftsmen, they are a unique folk art drenched in Buddhist and shamanist beliefs. Carved flowers represent wealth and yearning for a perfect world, while birds represent messengers from this world to the next, fish symbolise life and learning (as they never close their eyes), and tigers and goblins scare evil spirits away.

 

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