Daegu Alleyway History Tour - 대구 중구 근대골목 투어

Chapter 1. Dong-san Cheong-la Hill
· Dong-san Missionary Houses
· A dream of medical mission in a straw-roofed house in Daegu
· My Friend, a beloved Korean song

Chapter 2 The Road for the March 1st Independence Movement
· “Long Live Korean Independence!”

Chapter3 Gyesan Cathedral
· Wedding of President Chung-hee Park and First Lady Young-soo Yuk
· Why was an artist In-sung Lee obsessed with the persimmon tree?

Chapter 4 Sang-don Seo’s house and Sang-hwa Lee’s house
· A great resistant poet, Sang-hwa Lee
· Sang-don Seo, a patriot of the National Debt Repayment Movement

Chapter 5 Mulberry Street
· A Chinese Feng-Shui expert naturalized in Daegu

Chapter6 The First Presbyterian Church of Daegu
· The first protestant church in Daegu spread the Gospel

Chapter7 Yangyeongsi Medicine Market Museum of Oriental Medicine
· Why was the Medicine Market open in Daegu?

Chapter 8 The Yeongnam Great Route
· The old road to Seoul, used by merchants and scholars

Chapter 9 Jong-ro
· Two Gisaengs with the same name two hundred years apart
· The forlorn fate of the Yeongnam First Gate

Chapter 10 Jin alleyway
· A woman’s society at Jin alleyway led the National Debt RepaymentMovement
· Jeong pediatric clinic at the first two-story western house in Daegu
· Mido tea house, a resting place for elders

Chapter 11 House with a Sunken Courtyard
· A novelist Won-il Kim’s memories of youth in Daegu

Chapter 12 Chinese Residents’ Association
· The first generation of Chinese immigrants planted Chinese
architecture in Daegu

The Garden of Grace: Cemetery
In front of the missionary houses sits Enu-hye Garden (the Gardenof Grace). This is the location of the first foreigners’ graves in Daegu. The missionaries with family members who devoted themselves to carrying out missionary works are buried here. In Enu-hye garden is the carved phrase in Korean “I have been in love with them,” which is a heartwarming sight that shows the love of the missionaries and their families to this land.

Now a popular place for remembering first love
It was revealed that the location of My Friend was based on Dong-san, Daegu in 2009. A monument for this song was built in front of the Dong-san Missionary House on June 17, 2009. ‘Dong-san’ now is a place to remind us of our first love. Since the placement of the monument it has attracted a lot of visitors and has become an increasingly popular course of the Daegu Alleyway History Tour run by Jung-gu Office, Daegu Metropolitan City.

The opera “The memory of Cheong-la Hill” which is the storytelling of Park’s life, music and love was performed as the opening play of the Daegu International Opera Festival in 2012. In addition, the musical, “Tae-joon Park and Cheong-la Hill” produced by the Daegu Cultural Foundation was performed in front of the monument from October 19 to 26 in 2012.