House of Cards
Gwangju’s wildly fluctuating house prices beg the question if buying a home in the city is a solid investment or just throwing good money after bad. By William Urbanski My … Read More
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Yang-dong’s Ninth Life
To mark my fifth year stewarding the “Lost” column, I’d like to return to Gwangju proper, specifically Yang-dong. This month, I’ll scribble the pages of the Gwangju News with a tale involving hostess bars, North Korean collages, menacing graffiti, courteous cult invites, and a tenacious cat I call Achilles who, like Yang-dong itself, refuses to die despite all odds.
Chapter 5: Detailing the Doors, Windows, and Gates of Gwangju’s Mass-Produced Hanok
Influences from China, Japan, and Western culture made a lot of distinctive hanok in Gwangju and Jeonnam during the modern period. In addition, those designs survived through the 1960–70s after being selected and simplified by developers and became a standard for city hanok in Gwangju. There are two main types of 1960–70s hanok: “round type” and “square type.” Round-type models have an especially distinctive style compared to other regions, and we can say these were one of the last evolutions of hanok as normal houses in Korea.
Transparent Solar Panels: Good or Bad?
By Chung Hyunhwa In my previous article, I argued that using nuclear energy needs to end due to the fact that it requires a thorough nuclear waste management plan including permanent … Read More
Chapter 3. Roofs of Gwangju’s Mass-Produced Hanok: Cost Efficiency or New Fashion?
Even among those who are currently working in the hanok or heritage fields, many think of Gwangju’s mass-produced hanok roof designs as ridiculous or too exotic.
Youth on the Bubble: Shopping for a Home in Gwangju’s Overheated Housing Market
Korea’s millions of barbeque-loving boomers face a similar dilemma when it comes to apartment life. Lacking even the smallest external balconies, their apartments force them to buy half a home’s worth of additional appliances and camping gear so they can approximate backyard cookouts at overcrowded campsites.
Chapter 2. Floor Plans of Mass-Produced Hanok in Gwangju
In this chapter, Kang would like to share some floorplan blueprints that he collected and talk about how the floorplans of mass-produced hanok look, in addition to tracing the origin of their designs.
Mass-Producing Hanok Housing: Chapter 1. The Background of the Hanok in Gwangju
Even among residents of Gwangju, most don’t know the fact that this city had actually been one of the biggest hanok cities in Korea. It’s estimated that in the 1980s, there were more than 100,000 hanok in Gwangju.