※ This video is part of <Extreme Job - Carpenter 1-2> broadcast on October 15, 2008. Naksansa Temple was almost completely devastated by a forest fire that swept through the temple grounds in April 2005. Three years later, the main buildings, including the pavilion and the main building in front of Wontongbojeon, one of the main buildings, have been restored, and the progress is currently close to 50%. The most important people in the process of Naksansa Temple regaining its former appearance are the carpenters. We captured the carpenters of Naksansa Temple on camera, building roofs in strong winds and trimming trees in the suffocatingly flying sawdust, preserving tradition. Let’s take a look at the fierce lives of the carpenters at the Naksansa Temple restoration site, who sweat profusely and never let go of the trees. - Part 1 People who constantly cut and trim trees A sawmill located in Gangneung, Gangwon-do. This place, filled with 2 million trees, is where the trees to be used in the restoration of Naksansa Temple are first trimmed. From the early hours of the morning, there is a person who is meticulously examining and nagging, busy with work. This is Mr. Lee Gwang-bok, a carpenter in charge of restoring the pavilions and pavilions of Naksansa Temple. Master Lee Gwang-bok, famous for his meticulousness, has a reason for calling himself a nagging person. Since wood cannot be reused if handled incorrectly, precious trees that have lived for hundreds of years can become useless in an instant. A 150-year-old Geumgang pine tree is worth up to 20 million won, so you have to be careful. Efforts to restore the thousand-year-old temple Naksansa Temple The wood brought from the sawmill is meticulously trimmed at the lumber yard (a place where lumber is trimmed and processed). Even though it is the weekend, the lumber yard is busy with work. It must be unfair to work on the weekend, but the workers just laugh it off, saying, “Wasn’t today Sunday?” While covering himself with suffocating sawdust and being careful not to get hurt by sharp equipment, Lee Gwang-bok, a planer, appears at the work site. He examines him with a meticulous eye and nags him. However, strict standards are applied to himself as well. In order to reduce trial and error, he completed the design by making thousands of revisions over several months. Also, since he has no other work to do, he often trims the wood himself. At the Naksansa site, the roof covering board is urgently needed. Lee Gwang-bok, a planer, puts the wood into the machine and trims it himself. Protect the wood in the pouring rain. Lee Gwang-bok, a planer, heads to Naksansa carrying the completed board. The installation of the board is already in full swing on the roof of the pavilion. Since summer is over and it is next to the sea, the wind is strong, making the work on the roof seem precarious, and the work becomes even more difficult because he has to lift the heavy board. However, the nails used to drive the board look a little unusual. One side is driven in as is, while the other side is only half-driven, bending it. This is to prevent the wood from cracking or bursting as it dries. A few days later, it starts to rain in the lumber yard. The workers are worried that the wood they worked so hard to dry will get moldy or rot from the rain. When the rain stops, they have to quickly move the wood to a place where the wood can dry well, but the forklift that went in the wrong direction gets stuck in the mud and the voice of the carpenter Lee Gwang-bok gets louder! - Part 2 A stubborn man who keeps traditions. They quickly collected the wood, but the wood they worked so hard on ends up covered in black mold. The youngest, Jo Gyu-kwon, removes the mold with bleach. Although it is not completely removed, the color is much lighter, so he sighs in relief. In the lumber yard, you can see automated machines more easily than you would expect. There are advantages to mechanization, but there are also losses. The unit price of carpenters is falling significantly as mechanization increases. It is a bit regrettable, but the workers just silently focus on their work. When he goes home once a month for the first time in a while, even though he changes his clothes, his wife laughs and says that he smells like wood. Isn’t it their love for wood that keeps them in their workshop? “Once you get addicted to the scent of wood, you can’t leave the workshop.” At the Naksansa restoration site where the roof work is finished, a new task is in full swing. The work of making a door frame to put a door in has begun. The ‘lintel’ (wood that runs between pillars, above and below doors and windows) to be placed between pillars is piled up. The lintel needs to be inserted into the grooves between the pillars, but even with three workers working hard, it is not easy to lift the heavy lintel up to the roof and place it exactly in the groove. Since the wood cannot be reused if cut incorrectly once, it is