Syngman Rhee’s Villa, Jeju

Built in 1958, this building is a villa constructed within the Jeju National Ranch to provide lodging for the president and state guests. It is said to have come to be called 'Syngman Rhee's Villa' after President Rhee Syng-man stayed here in 1959. The entrance to the building and the dense woods planted around it blend with a single hackberry tree standing in the middle of the yard to create the effect of a landscape painting. Although it incorporates some traditional Korean motifs, such as the character 囍 (ssanghui), which wishes for two joys to be fulfilled at once, and palindrome-style ornamentation wishing for all things to go as intended, it generally shows the appearance of a Western modernist house of the kind that emerged from the 1950s onward.

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Where it is

Region

Jeju City, Jeju

Designation

Registered Cultural Heritage · 국가등록문화유산