Exploring the Seodongyo Theme Park in Buyeo
Recently, I visited the Seodongyo Theme Park located in Buyeo.
As the name suggests, Seodongyo Theme Park feels like a space where you can take a journey through time.
When thinking of the movie 'Back to the Future', the concept of time immediately comes to mind.
I remember it being a film that illustrates how choices in the present can lead to various outcomes in the past and future.
Perhaps the reason this movie remains memorable is not just due to its dazzling sci-fi elements, but because it conveys the idea that human life is layered upon time.
Seodongyo Theme Park, designed with the concept of Baekje in mind, spans about 10,000 pyeong and includes an open set featuring the Baekje Royal Palace, Royal Village, and Queen's residence, as well as modern scientific research facilities like Taehaksa. Additionally, there is a set that dramatizes the founding process from the late Goryeo period to the early Joseon Dynasty through geomancy.
Seodongyo Theme Park serves as both a drama set and a tourist destination, but it feels more like a space where time overlaps.
The story of Seodong before he became King Mu of Baekje coexists with the modern space that reenacts that tale.
If King Mu were to travel back in time, wouldn’t he return to the era known as Seodong?
In 'Back to the Future', the protagonist goes back to face his parents in their youth.
What seems familiar about family history unfolds in a completely different manner, making time feel less linear and more like overlapping layers.
Seodongyo Theme Park evokes a similar sensation.
Adjacent to the theme park, construction has been underway since November of last year.
This project, selected as part of the second phase of balanced development in Chungcheongnam-do in 2020, will include hanok pensions, management buildings, local sales facilities, and warehouses.
Buyeo County plans to enhance tourist stays through this hanok pension project and develop regionally specialized tourism content linked to nearby tourist routes.
While we think we know the history of Baekje from textbooks, walking through this place makes that history feel more like a living space than just a backdrop.
As I slowly walk through the theme park, it feels more like a space where the past and present coexist rather than merely a place showing the past.
Amidst people taking photos reminiscent of scenes from the drama, one can imagine the time of Baekje.
Just as time travel in films can alter the present, the current perspective here reinterprets the past.
Seodongyo Theme Park seems to pose a question:
“If you could go back to the past, what would you want to change?”
The quiet question posed by Seodongyo Theme Park is not so different:
“What choices is the history we remember now built upon?”
The scenery of Buyeo is not hurried.
Even though modern travelers stand on the land that was once the capital of Baekje, time does not push them away.
Traveling here becomes an opportunity to view the present from a slightly different perspective, rather than simply returning to the past or imagining the future.
Seodongyo Theme Park is such a space.
While it lacks flashy rides, it has a power that prompts reflection on time as you walk slowly.
The hanok pension, set to be completed in October this year, could play a significant role in establishing itself as a central hub for tourism in the southern region through synergy with the overall development plan of Seodongyo Theme Park.
Ultimately, travel may not be about movement but about a shift in perspective.
While 'Back to the Future' encouraged a reevaluation of life through time, Seodongyo Theme Park prompts us to rethink time through space.
Standing somewhere between the past and the future, it inspires reflection on the present self.
In that sense, these two narratives blend together more harmoniously than one might expect.
The journey through time is not so far away.
Source :https://blog.naver.com/sinmunman/224180878542
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