---
node: spot_jeonju_jeonju_hanok_village
type: spot
slug: jeonju_hanok_village
destination: dest_jeonju
title: "Jeonju Hanok Village"
lead: "Jeonju's hanok village is some seven hundred traditional houses in the centre of the city, built in the 1930s as a deliberate Korean answer to Japanese building in the town. It is the largest such quarter in the country."
published: 2026-08-12
updated: 2026-08-12
image_file: spot_jeonju_jeonju_hanok_village.jpg
image_source: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeonju_Hanok_Village_20230408_006.jpg"
image_author: "Mobius6"
image_license: "CC BY-SA 4.0"
---

## Overview

When Japanese merchants moved inside the old walls after 1910, Korean families built this quarter of tiled hanok on the eastern side as a statement — the village is a piece of colonial-era resistance in architecture, not a Joseon survival. Today it is heavily commercial: costume rental, street food, guesthouses. Jeonju is also the home of bibimbap, and the city's version, served in a brass bowl with beef tartare and a raw egg, is the one to eat here.

## Highlights

Walk the back lanes east of the main street, where people still live and the tiled roofs run unbroken. Eat bibimbap at a restaurant with a queue of Koreans rather than a photograph menu. The village is at its best early: the costume crowds arrive by eleven and the food streets are shoulder to shoulder by two.