Characteristics of Korean Houses

Most of the Korean villages are situated on the flat land of the mountains, and the houses are unique. The roofs of the houses are sloping on all sides, and the houses are divided into single rooms with wooden boards, and there is a doorway between each room. Inside the house, there is a flat bed with a fire escape at the bottom of the bed, which makes the room as warm as spring even in the harsh winter.

Korean dwellings are mostly mountain-topped buildings with green tiles and white walls, and except for towns and cities where there are simple courtyard walls, the rural areas usually do not have courtyard walls and keep a certain distance from their neighbors. Most of the houses are rectangular in plan, but there are also L-shaped ones, and some of them are equipped with outside corridors. Internal layout, the main room for the living room, cowshed and storage of firewood and debris "hayloft" at one end of the house, separated from the living room with the stove. How many rooms, the size of depending on the need, separated by sliding doors, more flexible and convenient. Inside the living room, a closet with sliding doors is set up against the wall for storing clothes and bedding, making the room look spacious and elegant. When family members and visitors enter the house, they go to the bed and take off their shoes at the door to keep the house clean.

Construction of Korean housing:

Mainly wooden frames are used for load-bearing. The foundation is built up with soil to a height of 30 centimeters, and then stones are laid around the perimeter. The outer wall is also the first to set up a wooden frame, two sides of the woven grass rope or wicker, outside the mud, gray cover, the middle of the sand; there is also not filled with sand, made of hollow wall. The inner partition wall is mostly made of double-sided plastered slat wall. Doors and windows for the sliding type, doors and windows of the same size, often doors and windows are not divided, can be made into the entrance, the vertical arrangement of the window lattice dense, horizontal grid spacing far, plus the door and window narrow, so that the body of the originally low room to give a person a sense of upright and beautiful. The roof is mostly made into four slopes, and the more common practice is to lay straw curtains or willow branches on the rafters, smear mud on the top, and then cover 30-50 cm thick straw, and finally make a grid with straw ropes to enclose the whole roof, or use the straw curtains to overlap one by one to cover the roof, in order to prevent the wind from blowing the straw away. In the towns, houses are mostly covered with green-gray ceramic tile roofs. Tile roof slopes slightly curved, the corners of the eaves and ridge ends upward, tile and ridge head with simple flower decoration, forming a lively and bright style.