Wolgyedonggaksimjae Hall

Believed to have been built in the 1930s, this is a gaeryang hanok (a modernised traditional Korean house) said to have been designed by Park Gil-yong (1898–1943), a leading architect of the Japanese colonial period. It originally stood in Gyeongun-dong and was relocated and rebuilt at its present site in 1994. It is said that the original owner built the house to give one to each of his two sons, with the Min Ik-du House serving as the front building and this house as the rear building. The gate stands at the east side of a square-shaped plot, and passing into the inner courtyard reveals an H-shaped building. Along the central axis are the kitchen, the daecheong (wooden-floored central hall), the geonneonbang (room across the hall) and the sarangbang (men's room), with the anbang (main room) in front of the kitchen and a back room behind it. A half-bay-wide toenmaru (narrow wooden veranda) links the paths of movement through the house. In front of the sarangbang is a nu-maru (raised wooden floor), and behind it a wooden floor by the entrance. A small flower bed has been kept along the wall on the south side of the courtyard. The placement of the entrance, toilet and bathroom inside the building, linked by a long corridor, together with the use of glass windows, clearly shows the appearance of a gaeryang hanok of this period, and the house is an important record for understanding the history of changes in housing.

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Where it is

Region

Nowon-gu, Seoul

Designation

Provincial Folklore Heritage · 시도민속문화유산