Min Family Estates – Choganri River Bank

That is the river. North Korea is the other side. (The river created by two rivers merging – ImJin River from North Korea and Han River from South Korea). 

The pictures are not that great, the Korea government will shut you down (!!). One is not supposed to take pictures right at the DMZ (I took a bunch of photos secretly. Shhhh! ^_^), and it doesn’t cover the whole land, but I did manage to pick up North Korea in the foreground. Ha! Plus, I like seeing my Mom and Dad up there.

MIN FAMILY

[Family Background]

The Min family in Korea goes to some 35 generation or over 500 years back in Korea. The Min families are recognized as a family with one of the most respected, high noble lines of ancestry in Korea and is still very respected family in the modern Korea.

The Min families had four queens during the Yi dynasty including the well-known last Empress in Korea, Empress Myung Sung. She tried to make the traditional Yi dynasty modernized opening doors for foreign know-hows and culture bewaring of the political interference of two neighboring countries, Japan and China. (They even made movies, TV dramas, and plays about her).

My Min family:

My grandfather and my grandmother’s two brothers: Owned import/export corporation, called KookSaeng Industry of which office building was located near the current Westin Chosun hotel around the Seoul city plaza.

Our Min family was a big landlord for many centuries, owning a large estate along the Korea DMZ. The large part of their rice fields were given to tenant farmers for returns in % of the rice harvested or sold them in the 1930s/1940s during the period of Japanese rule. And most of the other forest lands were sold to Korea Marine Corps in late 2000s for their continued use as the base area to guard against the North Korea.

My father still owns a few pieces of the lands at the above mentioned DMZ area. These areas happen to be one of the best locations among the areas along the Korea DMZ cutting across the Korea Peninsula from the West Sea to the East Sea.

The DMZ is going to open up sooner or later. 

So, whether I am single, married, grandparent, and great grandparent… it doesn’t matter: 

• LEGACY in the land of Asia (North Korea/South Korea divide)! 
• And the land is the most coveted area in the world today.

And my father has the lands. Niceee!!

[Estates]

HERE IT IS! (details)
>> Min Family Estates – Choganri River Bank (Google Docs)

See the attached write-up.

Location:

Min Family Estates: Choganri River Bank (Gyeonggi-do, 203-1 Jogang-ri, Wolgot-myeon) <— click here.

That is the Min story. At least, my interpretation of it.

🙂