[/caption]Image source : AJUMMA'S JOURNAL (many beautiful pictures of So. Korea)
I have been itching to blog about the Sanggojae, the traditional Korean house or hanok, residence of Park Gae-In, from the Korean Drama entitled Personal Taste/Perfect Match. All throughout the drama series, I fell in love with the architecture of the house, which is a U-shaped structure and has no walls between the inner courtyard and the living room and halls. I loved how this would make for a living space with good circulation that welcomes natural light and air into the home. Part of my attraction of the Sanggojae, which is a tourist destination in the Bukchon Hanok Village in Seoul, South Korea, is how the traditional house was jazzed up with simple but classy modernity.
Picture this: You have a parcel of land, say, 500 square meters or so. You enclose your lot with a sturdy firewall and build the U-shaped structure around the perimeter of your lot, leaving a good enough space for your inner courtyard. Upon entering the gate, you are led to the landing of your living room by a path in the middle of your courtyard. You step up, leave your shoes, change into your slippers and plop down your low living room sofa. You can survey the rooms located in the “legs” of your U-shaped home. The rooms have wooden sliding doors, typical among traditional structures in Japan, China and of course, Korea. The eaves of the roofs are tiled and curved in typical Asian fashion and the materials used are that of timber, rock and soil, giving the whole structure a natural look, far from the artificiality of synthetic materials.
*** Here’s the official site of the Bukchon Hanok Village where the Park Gae-In’s Sanggojae is located. I would absolutely love to visit this place! And it wouldn't hurt if I had a house like this of my own!
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