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Haman
UNESCO Gaya tombs and the 500-year-old fire ceremony
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UNESCO Gaya tombs and the 500-year-old fire ceremony
A rural county in Gyeongsangnam-do with Marisan's UNESCO-listed Ara Gaya tumuli, Mujinjeong's annual Nakhwanori fire-flower festival, and Agyang's spring poppy fields.
- ·Marisan Ara Gaya Tumuli, UNESCO World Heritage (Gaya Tumuli inscription, 2023)
- ·Mujinjeong Pavilion, early-Joseon pavilion overlooking a lotus pond
- ·Nakhwanori, fire-flower ceremony tradition practiced for roughly 500 years
- ·Agyang poppy fields, large-scale spring bloom event
- ·Ara Gaya confederation, one of ancient Korea's Gaya polities, centered here
- ·Mujinjeong lotus pond, summer bloom paired with the pavilion view
From Seoul: About 3h 15m KTX to Masan plus local bus
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Haman on film
K-drama, K-pop MV, and KTO campaigns filmed here.
IU x Byeon Woo-seok
Perfect Crown (21세기 대군부인): Filming Locations Across Korea
Perfect Crown (Korean: 21세기 대군부인) reunites IU (Hotel Del Luna, My Mister) and Byeon Woo-seok (Lovely Runner) for the first time since Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo a decade ago. Set in an alternate-reality 21st-century Korea where the monarchy still exists.
KTO
GUARDIAN'S FIREWORKS: HAMAN NAKHWANORI
Part of KTO's 2023 five-clip K-Contents campaign that collectively crossed 225 million views within one month of release. This Haman episode frames Nakhwanori, the 16th-century fire-flower ceremony still performed at Mujinjeong Pavilion, as the centerpiece of a 'guardian' legacy watching over the valley. The camera threads through the UNESCO-inscribed Ara Gaya royal tombs at Marisan Mountain, the Goryeo-loyal scholar village of Goryeodong, and the 600-year-old clan hamlet of Sanggeom, before ending at Mujinjeong's pond at dusk — where hundreds of charcoal rods ignite at once and the sparks double in the water reflection.
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