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Dear Friend:<BR>
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      <P>Thanks for your comment. However, there is a great difference to use 
      the Cultural Asset as a Tea House for commecial purpose and just to 
      convert an ordinary hanok into a guest house. Not all hanoks are real 
      treasure but mass of hanoks in the village like Kahoe-dong is worth to 
      conserve as it is.</P>
      <P> </P>
      <P>p.s. For those who are interested in my house:</P>
      <P>Sang-Oak Lee (1998) A Hanok in Seoul--A Traditional Residential 
      Architecture : </P>
      <P>A Study of the Yi PyOktong Residence of Hongmun-dong, Elizabeth, NJ 
      & Seoul: Hollym. <BR></P>
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        Original Message ---<BR><B>From : </B>"Lauren W. 
        Deutsch"<lwdeutsch@earthlink.net><BR><B>To : 
        </B>"sangoak@snu.ac.kr"<sangoak@snu.ac.kr><BR><B>Date : 
        </B>2005/09/02 ±Ý¿äÀÏ ¿ÀÀü 8:06:20<BR><B>Subject : </B>Re: [KS] Officially 
        condoned cultural vandalism: the destruction of hanok in Kahoi 
        Dong<BR><BR><X-HEAD><X-META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2722" 
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              <DIV>Dear Friend:</DIV>
              <DIV> </DIV>
              <DIV>Your description of the history of the home in which you were 
              born gave me a quick return to the Namsan Hanok Maul where I 
              enjoyed tea last year. It was during the first Asian Traditional 
              Arts Festival organized, in part, by my friends from Sohaean 
              Beyonsingut. I've also discovered that the hanok buildings turned 
              into guest houses in the Anguk area offer the best accommodations 
              for travelers. </DIV>
              <DIV> </DIV>
              <DIV>Happy Chusok (soon).</DIV>
              <DIV> </DIV>
              <DIV>Lauren W. Deutsch<BR><BR><BR>-----Original Message----- 
              <BR>From: sangoak@snu.ac.kr <BR>Sent: Sep 1, 2005 9:10 AM <BR>To: 
              Korean Studies Discussion List 
              <KOREANSTUDIES@KOREAWEB.WS><BR>Subject: Re: [KS] Officially 
              condoned cultural vandalism: the destruction of hanok in Kahoi 
              Dong <BR><BR></DIV>
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              <P>Indeed, not only the destruction of hanok but also the 
              <STRONG>transformation</STRONG> of hanok is officially condoned by 
              the Seoul City government because of 
              cultural ignorance.</P>
              <P> </P>
              <P>The master carpenter Yi SUng-Op who reconstructed KyOngbok 
              Palace built his own house and sold it to my great-grandfather in 
              1889. I was born in this house and lived until 1964. 
              Fortunately it was selected as cultural asset of Seoul (no. 
              20) in 1977, and moved to the north side of Namsan in 1996. This 
              (the first from the entrance) house at Namsan Hanok MaUl 
              (Village) is used as Yennal Ch'ajip (Old Tea House), which is 
              somewhat against safely preserving traditional architecture.</P>
              <P><BR>Besides some inside transformations, of particular concern 
              is the loss of the walls that divided the <EM>anch'ae</EM> 
              (women's quarters), the <EM>sarangch'ae </EM>(men's quarters), and 
              the <EM>haengnangch'ae</EM> (servants' quarters) from one 
              another.The inner walls kept the socially proper distance from 
              each other reflecting an important hierarchy of everyday 
              <EM>yangban</EM> life. This residence is not authentically 
              restored yet by the Seoul City government because of 
              their cultural ignorance.</P>
              <P> </P>
              <P>Sang-Oak Lee</P>
              <P>Department of Korean, Seoul National University<FONT 
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