Ihyangjeong House in Yangdong, Gyeongju

Yangdong is a clan village of the Wolseong Son and Yeogang Yi families, which has preserved many houses of long tradition well on the broad Angang Plain. This house was the residence of Yi Beom-jung, who served as magistrate of Onyang and took the art name Ihyangjeong, and the house is named after his art name. It is said to have been built in 1695, the twenty-first year of King Sukjong, and stands facing south at the very entrance to the valley leading into Yangdong Village. Overall it has an open, ㅁ-shaped plan, composed broadly of a main quarters, a men's quarters, a lower quarters and a mill house. The main quarters has the kitchen at its west end, with the main room, the daecheong and the across room to the right, and a storeroom and a lower room to the left. A half-bay-wide veranda runs along the front and back of the rooms and daecheong, and the arrangement of rooms follows the pattern common to this region. The mill house stands behind the main quarters' kitchen. The men's quarters is six bays wide and one and a half bays deep, with rooms on either side of a central two-bay daecheong. Structurally it is set apart from the main quarters, in a plan resembling the great houses of the central region or Seoul. In particular, a study fitted with a kitchen and a veranda is arranged behind the large sarang room, adding a further function, and its floor is bordered by a balustrade shaped like the Chinese character 亞, giving it the feel of a numaru, a raised, open wooden-floored room. The lower quarters is six bays wide and one bay deep, with a shed at its centre flanked by storerooms on either side. The building's layout generally follows the basic arrangement of the region while also incorporating changes suited to use, making it valuable material for the study of vernacular architecture and folklore. This heritage site is generally open to visitors, but access may be restricted due to the personal circumstances of the owner or other private matters.

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Where it is

Region

Gyeongju, Gyeongbuk

Designation

National Folklore Heritage · 국가민속문화유산