How it started
It began with one horse and a phone call.
In 2000, a man in Ganghwa asked his younger brother — then working in Singapore — to find him a horse. The brother sent one. Her name was Onyuhara, which in Korean means something close to be gentle. She died in an accident years later. Everything on this farm grew out of that one animal.
Han-seop Oh has run the place ever since. Kids call him the horse uncle. He's the one in the cowboy hat, and after twenty-six years he still leads the horse himself when a five-year-old climbs on for the first time.
The farm kept adding whatever the land offered. Horses needed a field, so there was a field. The field needed hands, so school groups came. Behind the barn the sea does its twice-daily disappearing act, so the mudflat became part of the day too. Now ten horses, a donkey, goats, sheep, rabbits and chickens live here, and somewhere between tens of thousands of people come through every year.
Korea's Rural Development Administration certified the farm as an educational farm in 2010, and awarded it a quality certification for experience farms in 2013.
