Visual Index of Nari Sites (Site name and description)
	Neowa House (1880s) The only neowa (shingle-roof) house remaining on the island.		Tumak House #1 (1880s) A thatched-roof house with corn stalk walls in the center of Nari.
	Tumak House #2 (1880s) A tumak house on the east side of this small town.		Tumak House #3 (1880s) One of two houses located in the isolated southern area of the Nari basin.
	Tumak House #4 (1880s) The farthest of the tumak houses from Nari.

About Nari

The Nari basin is located on the north side of Ulleung-do. It is the only portion of the island with significant flat land suitable for dry field farming. When the first settlers arrived on Ulleung-do from Korea in the 1880s, the Nari basin was one of the regions first settled. Of all places on the island, it is the only area where traditional houses are preserved. Two tumak houses (thatched-roof houses) and one neowa (shingle-roof) house stand in the town of Nari. There are two additional tumak houses on the now-uninhabited south portion of the Nari basin.

Nari is fairly difficult to reach. To get there, one must take a bus from Dongdo on the southeast side of the island. After getting off at Cheonbu, near the sea (see map), one must walk or hitch-hike several kilometers along a steep, ascending road that runs south into the basin.

The author recommends that visitors print out the reference map below. None of the official guidebooks or maps published in Korea accurately record the location of the old houses. In many cases several houses are missing or are shown in the wrong area!

Map of the Nari region. Source: GPS data collected by the author, January 2005 (WGS 84 map datum).