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Dear Friend:

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.s. For those who are interested in my house:

Sang-Oak Lee (1998) A Hanok in Seoul--A Traditional Residential 
      Architecture : 

A Study of the Yi PyOktong Residence of Hongmun-dong, Elizabeth, NJ 
      & Seoul: Hollym. 

--- 
        Original Message ---
>From : 
"Lauren W. 
        Deutsch"<lwdeutsch at earthlink.net>
To : 

"sangoak at snu.ac.kr"<sangoak at snu.ac.kr>
Date : 

2005/09/02 금요일 오전 8:06:20
Subject : 
Re: [KS] Officially 
        condoned cultural vandalism: the destruction of hanok in Kahoi 
        Dong

Dear Friend:

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. 

Happy Chusok (soon).

Lauren W. Deutsch
-----Original Message----- 

From: sangoak at snu.ac.kr 
Sent: Sep 1, 2005 9:10 AM 
To: 
              Korean Studies Discussion List 

Subject: Re: [KS] Officially 
              condoned cultural vandalism: the destruction of hanok in Kahoi 
              Dong 

Indeed, not only the destruction of hanok but also the 

transformation
 of hanok is officially condoned by 
              the Seoul City government because of 
              cultural ignorance.

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.

Besides some inside transformations, of particular concern 
              is the loss of the walls that divided the 
anch'ae

              (women's quarters), the 
sarangch'ae 
(men's quarters), and 
              the 
haengnangch'ae
 (servants' quarters) from one 
              another.The inner walls kept the socially proper distance from 
              each other reflecting an important hierarchy of everyday 

yangban
 life. This residence is not authentically 
              restored yet by the Seoul City government because of 
              their cultural ignorance.

Sang-Oak Lee

Department of Korean, Seoul National University

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Picture 
                    Gallery
 New Buildings that replace the 
                    old
Views

                    (in autumn) of our own Hanok at Kahoi Dong 31-79
Speculation:

                    How land values are manipulated in Kahoi Dong
Who are 

JAHO

                    (the construction company demolishing Kahoi Dong)
Media.Daum 
                    Report

(August 9th 2005
)
Pansori 

Concert at Kahoi-dong 31-79 on 
August 27 2005

TV 
MBC

                    Television

(2005/7/21)
, 
TBS 
                    Television

(2005/8/6)

KTV

(2005/8/12)
A meeting at the 
Chongrogochung

                    (Video) 
July 14th 2005

An open letter to the President of Korea 

Korean

                    / 
English

July 6th 2005
Dong-A 
                    Ilbo
 July 1 2005 - protest about destruction in 
                    Kahoi Dong 
(Korean)
Joong Ang 
                    Ilbo
 June 27 2005 - about our own Hanok 

(Korean)
Government 
                    grants

t
o demolish a hanok and build a wine bar! 

March 2005
Letter to the 
                    Mayor of Seoul

November 7th 2004

(English)
Kim 
                    Ki-Duk
 selects our Hanok for filming "Bin Jip" 

August 2004

(English)
The House of 
                    Choi

September 1990
 - about our own Hanok ( also as

PDF
) 

(English)

How you 
                    can Help 
Help needed! 

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