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South Korea. Korean traditional Bark shingled house, Neowajip or Gulpijip (굴피집) in Gangwon Province Interior of a traditional house at Jeongseon County, Gangwon Province. After the devastation of the Korean War there was a need for cheap, suitable housing for people displaced by the war.
Some Korean people resisted the Japanese nationalist agenda by building traditional Korean hanok homes, such as the houses of Jeonju village. [16] The colonial disregard for Korean architecture and its history left important Korean landmarks neglected and unmaintained, and the deterioration or demolition of significant examples of architecture ...
Choga is one of the two classifications of traditional Korean housing. [4] Choga is named after and characterised by its straw thatched-roof; to be distinguished from giwa, its tiled-roof counterpart. Choga was the representative housing for the working class in Korea from prehistoric times until mid 20th century. [5]
Ondol (ON-dol; / ˈ ɒ n. d ɒ l /, [1] Korean: 온돌; Hanja: 溫突/溫堗; Korean pronunciation:) or gudeul (구들; ) in Korean traditional architecture is underfloor heating that uses direct heat transfer from wood smoke to heat the underside of a thick masonry floor. In modern usage, it refers to any type of underfloor heating, or to a ...
An anchae (Korean: 안채) is a section of a Korean traditional house that is reserved for women of the household.It can be composed of a number of rooms with different functions, including notably the anbang (안방; lit.
Neowa house in Samchuck, Gangwon province. Neowa (Korean: 너와) refers to shingles for roofs. Such roofs can especially be seen in mountain villages (for example, in Gangwon-do), since these are places which are hard to get materials, such as giwa and byeotjip. Instead, it is made with the pieces of thick bark of about 200-year-old red pine ...
The Blue House ("Cheongwadae"), the former presidential palace of South Korea, has a sarangchae that is external to the rest of the complex. In the spirit of sarangchaes, it was open to the public even before the Blue House was vacated and itself turned into a museum. It shows the history of the main building and the Korean presidency. [7] [8]
Gwangajeong (Korean: 관가정; Hanja: 觀稼亭) is a historic hanok, or Korean traditional house, in Yangdong Folk Village, Gangdong-myeon, Gyeongju, South Korea. It was the house of Son Jung-don (孫仲暾 1463-1529), a civil minister during the reign of King Seongjong of the Joseon Dynasty. It is designated as the 442 Treasure of South Korea.