While Seoul's skyscrapers and luxury apartments have been popping up all over the city, the traditional Korean home or Hanok is also experiencing a surprising renaissance. Nani Park’s book, Hanok: The ...

A hanok is a traditional Korean house built without nails or pegs. This ancient art of Korean “Lego” has been patented by South Korean authorities, in a bid to preserve and promote traditional ...

The project sees a hanok (traditional Korean house) turned into a performance space with amenities, and draws on the South Korean Royal Orchestra as concept. The stage is located at the courtyard ...

I initially wanted to build my hanok, and the personal project became this big. I travel a lot for business because my company develops IC chips and does business with over 80 countries. Whenever I ...

South Korean government The room is designed to feel like a traditional Korean Hanok house - with panelled windows made of paper. The blue carpet is meant to represent the mountains and streams ...

"They'll leave with a bad impression of South Korea." Bukchon Hanok Village, with its narrow winding alleyways in hilly northern Seoul, dates back to the Joseon Dynasty (1392–1897). The area has ...

It is not uncommon to see a Korean couple on a date in a hanok-style restaurant or for tourists to stay in a hanok guest house. Even if you're not bedding down in Bukchon, recent travelers ...

analyzed an image of a traditional Korean hanok house in winter. The model described the image as having “distinctive eaves and tiled roofs of a hanok,” accurately identifying it as a hanok ...