The Korean House - About the Author

About the author

Jeon BongHee is a professor of architecture at Seoul National University. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard-Yenching Institute in 2003, a Fulbright visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley in 2010, and a visiting professor at Kyushu University in 2015. He specializes in the history of the architecture of Korea and East Asia. His major publications include the books: 3 Bay x 3 Bay, Hanok and the History of the Korean House, and The First Modern Drawings of Korea. Over the past twenty years, he has not only focused on comparative research on the architectural traditions of the East Asian region but also contributed to establishing archives of drawings and oral history related to the modern architecture of Korea.