Yun Family Home of Empress Sunjeonghyo

The Yun Family Home of Empress Sunjeonghyo is a house that perfectly preserves the appearance of a high-class residence from the Joseon Dynasty. It was restored by modeling the Ogin-dong Yun Family Home located in Namsangol Hanok Village. Originally located at 47-133 Ogin-dong, Jongno-gu, it was moved in 1996 when Namsangol Park was created. This house, said to have been the residence of Yun-bi (the consort of the last Joseon emperor), has a square-shaped layout with the main gate facing east. The sarangchae (men's quarters) is built in a pavilion style on the southeast corner of the site, offering a view of the entire city. The daecheongmaru (main wooden floor) of the anchae (women's quarters) is a six-kan hall with two-kan depth and three-kan frontage, facing east. The column capitals are all in the choikgong style, and the use of ungong (cloud-shaped brackets) to support the purlins is uniquely structured. The roof of the sarangchae is a hip-and-gable roof with four eaves, and the gable ends are finished with brick stacking. The windows and doors are in the double-window style with lattice doors and wanja (swastika) windows, but they have deteriorated. The design technique of slightly interlocking the vertical bars of the fixed window in the sarangchae is worth seeing. On the gable wall of the kitchen, a sarong window (a type of ventilation window) is installed above the roof of the low servant quarters to promote natural ventilation; the carving is excellent, and the gable-end bracket uses typical metal fittings, while the column edges and mid-beam trimming (such as external chamfering, rounded edges, and double chamfering) are also elaborately decorated.