| Title |
A Study on the Characteristics of the LDK Formation in Korean Apartment Housing - Focused on the Public Apartment Housing From 1962 To 1988 - |
| Authors |
Do, Younjung ; Jeon, BongHee |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5659/JAIK_PD.2017.33.9.61 |
| Keywords |
Kitchen ; Living room ; Dining room ; Apartment ; LDK ; DK ; Korean Tradition ; Spatial hierarchy |
| Abstract |
The purpose of this study is to investigate the distinctive process of the LDK formation in Korean public housing and the relevance of traditional perceptions of Korean dwelling. LDK, which stands for living, dining, and kitchen areas, is a spatially integrated space of those sections and has been popularized in Korea since 1980s. In traditional Korean housing, each section, such as ondol room(a room with underfloor heating), maru (a hall with a wooden floor), and bueok (a kitchen equipped with heating and cooking system), is compartmentalized by function. In particular, bueok, which was ranked lowest, was a dirty, dingy space at a lower floor level than the other rooms. Considering traditional Korean housing, this integration of the living, dining, and kitchen areas in the LDK plan is a drastic change that cannot be explained by modernization alone. The living room is the first newly coined terminology in the modernization of Korean apartment housing. And it had priority in Korean apartment housing, due to the spatial complexity of the traditional madang and maru. It became a multi-purpose hall in current apartment unit, providing a place for holding family events as well as additional kitchen workspace. Since the Mapo apartment of "L+K" unit was built in 1962, Korean apartments have gone through a short transition period for "L+DK" or "LD+K" in 1970s. In a culture that typically set the table in high-level space, such as ondol room or maru, an eat-in kitchen could not be easily adapted in modernized housing. It is examined that there is a robust perception of the kitchen as being ranked lowest in the Korean tradition of dwelling. The dining room, which did not exist in the traditional Korean house, was the latest coinage in the apartment unit plan, but it worked as an equilibrium point between the spatial hierarchy of living room and the efficiency of kitchen. |