Seongju Yesallibaeridaek House

Seongju Yesallibaeridaek House is a residence built in 1936 by Do Mun-hwan for his married son, Do Jae-rim, and his wife to live in after setting up a separate household. Its taekho (house name) derives from the fact that Do Jae-rim's wife had married in from Baeri Village. Do Mun-hwan (1887-1970), who built the house, was the son of Do Gap-mo (pen name Mansan, 1864-1937), a forward-looking Confucian scholar of the Seongju region who led enlightenment movements. Do Mun-hwan himself was active in various social movements in the Seongju area during the 1920s, including the youth movement and the Singanhoe movement. Passing through the east-facing gate quarters, roofed with plain tiles in a hipped-roof form, one finds an L-shaped main hall facing south across a wide courtyard. In front of the main hall there remains a wide vacant lot, once the site of the servants' quarters and storehouse, with ordinary houses scattered around the area. Overall, the house combines the exterior appearance of a traditional hanok with the floor plan, windows and doors, and interior decoration of a traditional Japanese-style house in a two-storey structure, making it an eclectic modern house of importance as material for the study of Korean residential history.

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Where it is

Region

Seongju, Gyeongbuk

Designation

Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료