How did people live beside the sea?
Finds from Osan-ri in Yangyang offer clues about Neolithic life on Korea's eastern coast. Gallery 1 at the Osan-ri Prehistory Museum presents pottery-making, fishing, hunting and gathering as ways to explore everyday routines.
Reading a pot's surface
Compare flat-bottomed and pointed-bottom vessels and the different ways people added or incised patterns. The museum describes pottery styles associated with the west coast, northeastern regions and southern coast among the Osan-ri finds. Their differences raise questions about how people and objects may have connected, although the precise path of any single pot is not established.
Food from lake and sea
Fishing tools discovered alongside dwellings near Ssangho Lake suggest that catching fish was important to local livelihoods, according to the museum. Families might ask what people stored in their pots and how fishing shaped their days.
Before visiting
Find the museum at 33 Hakpo-gil, Sonyang-myeon, Yangyang-gun, Gangwon State. Official hours are 09:00–18:00, last entry 17:30, and admission and parking are free. It closes Mondays, January 1, Seollal and Chuseok day; when Monday is a public holiday, the following day is closed. Groups of 10 or more must book ahead, and food and pets are not permitted. The official bus directions indicate Songpo Elementary School stop for Yangyang–Susan/Dongho services; check the live timetable yourself.