INTERIOR DESIGN

Dec. 2024

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Explore The Hanok Heritage House, a Dreamy Escape Near Seoul

Sangyoon Kim, an interior architect and industrial designer, founded Listen Communication in 2013. The Seoul-based firm’s primary tenet is to reinterpret Korea’s beauty through spatial and product design. In terms of architecture, perhaps nothing represents the nation’s culture better than the hanok, a traditional residential structure characterized by a tiled gable roof, natural building materials for sustainability and health benefits, underfloor heating, a courtyard configuration, and adherence to feng shui principles for harmony with environs. The Hanok Heritage House, a massive 73-acre hospitality complex a two-hour drive southeast of Seoul, embraces and interprets these traits. Explore this home away from home.