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※ This video is part of <Korean Travelogue - Winter Story Part 5, Deep in the Mountains, Winter Deepens>, which aired on February 5, 2016. The Taebaeksan and Sobaeksan Mountains have many remote villages because of the mountain peaks surrounding them. Due to the regional characteristics, it snows a lot, and when that happens, they become helplessly isolated. Jeomri Village in Samcheok, Gangwon-do, at the foot of Taebaeksan Mountain. This village has houses scattered on the mountainside. In the house at the very top of Jeomri, Mr. Jeong Woo-hwa and his mother in her 80s live together. Also, the cow, Nureongi, who is the household worker and family member of this house, plows the fields in the spring and listens to Grandma’s words often. That’s why Grandma Kim Soon-chil thinks of her eldest son as Uhwa and her second son as Nureongi. This house preserves its original appearance as if time has stopped. There is a millstone for grinding grain, a stove, a large cauldron, and even a barn inside the house… … . In winter, there is nothing to do, but Jeong Woo-hwa trims branches in the vineyard and roasts and eats the buried seed potatoes with his grandmother. Grandmother Nam Soon-ok has been living alone in the house where her grandfather is buried since he passed away 11 years ago. She has five black goats, one chicken, two cows, a 20-day-old calf that she took in herself, and even a puppy named Ddol-i who is all her grandmother's love... ... Grandmother fills her grandfather's empty spot with these animals. When winter passes, flowers bloom and spring comes, but Grandmother feels empty because her grandfather cannot return. Let's go inside Grandmother's life as she waits for spring. Baegol Village, a remote area at the foot of Mt. Sobaek. On snowy days, it takes at least an hour and a half to walk to the bus stop to go to town. Park Bong-gi and Yoon Yeong-sun lived in the house at the end of this village without electricity for 20 years. Last October, when the number of households in Baegol Village increased to three, electricity was installed. However, rather than being inconvenient, they say that it is good because it is remote. In one corner of Grandma Yoon Young-soon’s kitchen, water from the mountain gushes out like a spring. So she uses that water for washing dishes and drinking water. The couple also goes to the market together to squeeze perilla oil from the summer crop they farmed. They say that shopping every market day is the joy of the couple in the winter… …. They buy couple shoes and clothes at their regular shoe store and enjoy a rare outing. We take a peek into their lives that can be enjoyed because they are in the remote mountains, and that are happy because they are in the remote mountains. ✔ Program name: Korean Travelogue - Winter Story Part 5 Winter Deepens in the Deep Mountains ✔ Broadcast date: 2016.02.05