Seoseoldang House, Bonghwa

Seoseoldang House is said to have been relocated to its present site in 1708 by Gwon Du-ik (1651–1725), a descendant four generations removed from Dongmi (1525–1585), second son of Gwon Beol (1478–1548, pen name Chungjae) of the Andong Gwon clan, who was the first of the clan to settle in Yugok-ri. The house stands in Toil, a natural village within Yugok-ri, Bonghwa-eup, laid out in the classic mountain-to-the-back, water-to-the-front (baesan-imsu) arrangement, with a hill rising behind the village and the Toilcheon stream running in front of it. The house comprises a main building and an ancestral shrine. The main building forms a square (mieum-shaped) courtyard plan, with the shrine standing to its northeast; an earthen-and-stone wall marks the boundary between the two, with a side gate providing passage between them. Based on a geomantic reading of the site, the outer space was laid out without an enclosing wall, and the house shows the clear separation of inner and outer space and the projecting sarangchae (men's quarters) that became prominent from the seventeenth century onward, as well as a distinctively shaped hipped-and-gabled roof on the shrine. These features, expressing the clan's own relative originality, are rare and distinguishing. Tangible and intangible folk-related materials reflecting historical and cultural change have been passed down to a certain degree, and the house possesses the basic historicity and academic value that justify its designation and preservation as a National Folklore Cultural Heritage.

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Where it is

Region

Bonghwa, Gyeongbuk

Designation

National Folklore Heritage · 국가민속문화유산