False Dong-hwan House

This house was built around 1650, the first year of King Hyojong's reign, by No Yeop, the owner's ancestor eight generations back, and has survived to the present; it consists of a main quarters (anchae), a men's quarters (sarangchae), and a servants' quarters (haengnangchae). The main quarters measures four kan across the front and two kan along the side, with a hipped-and-gabled roof (paljakjibung) that forms the shape of the character 八 (eight) when viewed from the side. From the west, there is a kitchen at the front and two rooms behind it, followed by the main room (anbang) and the wooden-floored hall (daecheong), with a storeroom (dojang) behind the room across the hall (geonneonbang). The storeroom, used for keeping various household goods, has a wooden floor installed to allow good ventilation. The original form of the servants' quarters is not precisely known, but it is now used as a cattle shed and storage shed, its thatched roof having since been replaced with tile. The men's quarters measures three kan across the front and two kan along the side, with a hipped-and-gabled roof, and is attached to a gate quarters (mungancha). Gate rooms (mungan-bang) originally stood on either side of the main gate, but only one remains today; a plaque reading "Jeongyangsa" hangs in the men's quarters. Because the site slopes, the floor of the men's quarters sits high, creating a cool, airy atmosphere. According to legend, the site of the house and the mountain facing it were considered to be in poor harmony, said to be the reason no wealthy or talented people emerged from the family, so a pavilion called Gangjeong was built on the mountain ridge to remedy this.

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Where it is

Region

Imsil, Jeonbuk

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료