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Ondol – Korean traditional underfloor heating system

Cultures, Houses / By

When humans build villages, there has been requirements for settlement of winter, there seems many ways to heat the cold house. Ondol(온돌, 溫突) is one of the installation in Korean traditional architecture, the underfloor heating system that uses heat transfer from the smoke. The structure of typical ondol is as the below: The main conceptions […]

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What is Hanok? The nature of Korean traditional house Hanok and introductory writing

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Hanok (한옥, 韓屋) is Korean traditional house architecture built in Joseon dynasty, 14th century. The Korean traditional architecture so-called Hanok exists from Joseon dynasty. In Joseon dynasty, the scale of Hanok was differed by social classes. Some Hanok was designed for Yangban, whose social class was aristocrats. Yangban’s Hanok was called 기와집(tile-roofed house) while peasants

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