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Leisure Culture of the Joseon Dynasty Gentry: The Case of ‘Lying-down’ Tourism

  • Journal of Tourism Sciences
  • Abbr : JTS
  • 2008, 32(6), pp.59-81
  • Publisher : The Tourism Sciences Society Of Korea
  • Research Area : Social Science > Tourism

Yook, Jae-Yong 1

1김포대학

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ABSTRACT

This paper pays attention to an unfamiliar concept, 'wayu tourism' (lying-down tourism) not noticed by the current Korean tourism scholars. Wayu means sightseeing a miniatured natural beauty, lying down inside home. The wayu tourism is the phenomenon of experiencing the effects of tourism through wayu deeds. The literary men and illustrious officials of Choson Dynasty were absorbed in official duties at youth and were an unhealthy condition at old age, so they could not easily get access to mountains and waters. In this situation, they like post-modern tourists nowadays tend to replace real tourism by wayu tourism. Arguably wayu tourism enjoyed by our ancestor and today's virtual tourism could be said having similarity in certain respect.

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