There are several places you could see the place in where they had lived. Through those places you could estimate how Koreans had been living in the past.

Among those places, Seongbuk Dong is very excellent place you can visit easily. There is not far from the downtown. Besides there are plenty of restaurants of the locals’ favorite.

In this posting, I’d like to introduce you the traditional house of famous writer.
This house had been estimated to be built early 1900 years.
It shows the traditional architecture of the novel family.

This house have been preserved well, and it turned into the traditional tea caffe.
I dropped by this house with my younger brother.
He is half specialist on the traditional culture in Korea.
He recommended me to stop by.

At the entrance, it was something special. The gate was so beautiful. It showed the beauty of the traditional view of point. In Choson dynasty, even the novels could not built the extravagancy architecture.

The name of this house is Soo Yeon San Bang.
In Choson Dynasty each house has had it's own name.

The novels needed to enjoy the moderate beauty. The luxury house could be blamed.
In this respect the writer’s house would be believed as the representative architecture of early 1900 years.

As passing through the main gate, you can not see the main building directly. The road to from the gate to the main building was not straight, it was bend over. Indirectness is a key concept of the traditional architecture in Korea. You could notice this tendency of indirectness in Buddhist temple. I hope to explain this concept of Buddhist architecture next chance.

So you could see the side of the main house , when entering into the house.

In front of the main building, there is a small garden. The Garden in Korean Architecture is nature friendly style. In Japan, the garden is apt to be artificial than Korean.

The one characteristic of the novel’s architecture is the pavilion. The paivilion had played very important role in the past. The novels had used to enjoy the poem and the brush writings together in the pavilion.

So for the novels, the pavilion was very important to show their level of the culture.

We sat in the room and ordered tea. I took some photos of inside

There were windows having interesting patterns.

I hope you to understand the korean traditional architecture with this posting.