Sancheong Donguibogam Village (산청 동의보감촌)

Sancheong Donguibogam Village is a public traditional-Korean-medicine cultural village in Sancheong, Gyeongsangnam-do, built around the Donguibogam — Heo Jun's monumental 17th-century medical encyclopedia that is one of Korea's most important contributions to East Asian medical science and is inscribed in UNESCO's Memory of the World register. The village complex includes a museum on traditional Korean medicine, a herbal-medicine experience center, a traditional-medicine market, lodging facilities, walking trails through the surrounding mountain landscape, and seasonal traditional-medicine festivals. The site is the cultural anchor for Sancheong's broader identity as one of Korea's traditional-medicine herbal-cultivation regions. Best given a half-day, particularly for travelers seriously interested in traditional Korean medicine and herbal-cultivation traditions.