Jo Hae-yeong House

About this place

Jo Hae-yeong House is known as one of the 'Three Wealthy Families of Hamna Village,' along with the Kim Byeong-sun Old House and the Yi Bae-won House in Iksan. Unlike the other wealthy families, the Jo family's ancestors had long settled in Hamna Village. The foundation of the Jo clan's prosperity was laid by Jo Hae-yeong's great-great-grandfather Jo Han-gi, who served as the county governor of Sacheon and Jeongeup during the reign of King Gojong. Jo Han-gi's son-in-law Jo Yong-gyu subsequently built the Jo Hae-yeong House in 1918, backed by enormous economic power. Jo Yong-gyu established a large farm in 1923, like the other wealthy families of Hamna Village, and also engaged in corporate management as a major shareholder holding 500 shares of DaeryukhomoGongeopMaster (Continental Flour Industry Co., Ltd.). The Jo Hae-yeong House originally had many buildings, but currently consists of the sarangchae (men's quarters), the main house (momchae) with an annex bedroom (saebangchae), the servants' quarters (haengnangchae), the farm sarangchae, and the gatehouse (munganchae). It is a cultural heritage site that shows the lifestyle of a wealthy farming family during the Japanese colonial period and allows one to observe the process of change in hanok alongside the introduction of foreign cultures.