The site now occupied by Juknokwon was originally a bamboo grove that village residents managed to produce bamboo goods. But as plastic products came to replace bamboo goods, this bamboo grove was gradually left unused. Damyang County purchased this neglected grove and, in May 2003, reopened it as a newly built public park. Spanning roughly 160,000 square meters with 2.2 kilometers of walking trails, the park includes eight named paths, each with its own name — including the Road of Fortune, the Road of Unchanging Love, the Path of Memory Lanes, the Philosopher's Path, the Path of Contemplation, the Scholar's Path, the Road of Childhood Friends, and the Climb to Seongin Mountain.
Around the same time, Samjinae Village in Changpyeong-myeon, Damyang County, gained a new identity of its own. In 2007, this village was designated Korea's first Slow City. Changpyeong rice taffy and traditional confections known as hangwa, once offered as tribute to the Joseon royal court, remain the village's representative slow food today, and visitors can still take part in hands-on experiences making hangwa and rice taffy here. A bamboo grove that had outlived its usefulness, and a traditional confectionery village that had quietly been fading from memory, thus each acquired, in their own way, a new name and meaning within the same decade of the 2000s.