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Tumak (thatched) House #2 - 투막집 (built late 19th century onward)

This house, built around 1940, sits near the center of Nari and is surrounded by several newer buildings. The house was once owned by a local landowner named Goh Yeong-hwan, but it became a property of the local government in 1987. There is no official name for this house distinguishing it from the others in the Nari basin, so I refer to it as "Tumak house 2" since it was the second house spotted by the author in Nari.

The house was constructed in the mid 1940s after a style that prevailed in the 1880s, when the first Korean settlers arrived on Ulleung-do from Gangwon province. The early settlers adapted their homes to the treacherous snow of Ulleung island by surrounding the entire house with a second wall of woven cornstalks, creating a sheltered corridor around the main rooms of the house. This second wall prevented snowdrifts from blocking entrances to the individual rooms, and also provided protection from the wind.

Address: 경북 울릉군 북면 나리리 117-1.

(Designated Cultural Property Material #182).

Plan

Basic plan of the house.
From on-site sketch by Timothy M. Ciccone, not to scale.

Location

The approximate location of the house is 37.520020' N, 130.871317' E (WGS 84 map datum).