Seogwipo Architectural Culture Tour Course 2. Taste Becomes Culture

Paintings became houses, and calligraphy became a brand. Flowers once reserved for cattle and horses became poetry, and the oreums, once considered unsightly, became calligraphy. Known only as a man of letters in his time, Kim Jeong-hui—who was also a teacher, scholar, designer, calligrapher, gourmet, an obsessive man, and a romantic—had his tastes preserved entirely as culture.