Kkachigumeongjip in Geumgwang-ri, Yeongju

The Dongho hamlet in Geumgwang-ri, Pyeongeun-myeon, Yeongju, where this house stands, developed into a clan village of the Andong Kim after Kim Bok-geun of that clan settled there in the mid-18th century. No records survive to establish the origins or history of the house itself; oral tradition holds only that it was once occupied by the great-granduncle of its present owner, Kim Suk-hui, though it is possible that earlier generations of the family had already lived there. The house is a kkachigumeongjip, a traditional commoner's house with a smoke vent set into the ridge, resembling a magpie's nest-hole, of a type widely adopted among commoner's houses in the northern Gyeongsangbuk-do region. It has a front of three bays and a side of two bays. Along the front row, a bongdang, an earthen-floored central space, occupies the middle, flanked by a stable on the left and a kitchen on the right; along the rear row, a wooden floor behind the bongdang is flanked by a sarangbang (men's quarters) on the left and an anbang (main women's room) on the right. The house displays the folk characteristics and structural methods typical of a commoner's dwelling: a floor plan incorporating a wooden floor in the sarang section, a form typical of the kkachigumeongjip type, storage spaces built into various places, and joinery adapted to differing bay widths.

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Yeongju, Gyeongbuk

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료