Gangneung Kim Yun-gi House

This house was built against the backdrop of a low hill covered with pine trees. It is a large and imposing house - so large that it was used as a temporary school during the Korean War - and is known as the place where Hong Guk-yeong, a powerful official of King Jeongjo's reign in the Joseon dynasty, was once exiled. The main hall, comprising an anchae (women's quarters) and a sarangchae (men's quarters), together with the outer haengnangchae (servants' quarters), form a square, ㅁ-shaped layout, and to the east of the main hall stands a mungan-chae (gatehouse), estimated to have been built around 1714. To the left of the anchae is a pantry (chambang), to the right is the sarangchae, and opposite stands the haengnangchae. In the anchae, rooms are arranged on either side of a wooden-floored hall (maru). In front of each room runs a floor connected to the main daecheong floor, serving as a passage between the rooms. The pantry was originally used for storing and preparing food but is now used as a dining room. The mungan-chae, set across the courtyard from the haengnangchae, is a large building of more than seventy kan (bays). On either side of its raised gate (sotdaemun) were a storehouse, a room and a cattle shed, though the cattle shed has since been converted into a room.

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Where it is

Region

Gangneung, Gangwon

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료