Father's House / 300 Years of Song Seok-heon, The Last Scholar's Path [Life Experiment] KBS

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Published on Sep 9, 2021

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What remains are memories. A house is started, built, finished, written, loved, lasts, disappears, and finally leaves behind memories. Architect Kim Ki-seok 300 years of memory, Song Seok-heon Song Seok-heon. It is a house from the Joseon Dynasty located in Seokpyeong-ri, Bonghwa-eup, Bonghwa-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do. It was built in 1700, and it is a unique house that looks like a two-story structure when viewed from the front because it was built to take advantage of the slope of the land. It is Important Folklore Material No. 249. Here is an old house. It is a house built in 1700, so it is over 300 years old. When you enter the yard, the first thing that strikes you is the two-story structure that you cannot see in a hanok. It is because the foundation was built high in the front part by utilizing the slope of the mountain. The grandeur and scale that Song Seok-heon gives is unique and cannot be found at all in Joseon noble houses. This is why modern architects pay attention to Song Seok-heon. A house that has survived for 300 years and is still inhabited by people. What kind of story is living in this old house? The last scholar living with memories, Kwon Heon-jo Kwon Heon-jo [83 years old] He is a descendant of the Kwon family who protects and lives with Song Seok-heon. He is known as the last scholar of Joseon in the Andong Bonghwa area and still lives a Confucian life. Here, there is a scholar who still holds on to old values. In the morning and evening, he wears his formal attire and visits his parents’ graves behind his house to pay his respects, and when he returns from going out, he visits the graves again. Although his ancestors never held a prominent position and he himself lacks education, he insists that he is not a scholar of Chinese classics, but scholars of Chinese classics from the Bonghwa Andong area volunteer to be his disciples and visit him regularly to study Chinese classics. He lives alone. His children all live in Seoul, but he is determined to end his life in this house. The only reason is that he cannot leave this house where his parents lived. The values he holds on to still exist in the past. So is the past just the past? In every old memory, there is something that must be remembered. Memories are completed in this way and eventually become a value. A Praise for Home and Memory Song Seok-heon's Panoramic View A uniquely shaped signboard stands on the road in front of the house. It seems like a symbol of this old house, standing on a dangerous road that is twisted between the past and the future, proving its existence. What lives in the 300-year-old memory? And why does the old man still hold on to that memory? This program is a eulogy to that old memory and a tribute to that memory. The method of that eulogy and tribute will be realized through the photographer and musician in the program. A journey to find the numerous memories that an old house holds begins.

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