※ This video is part of <Architecture Exploration House - Stranger: House, Living in an Enemy Property> broadcast on June 4, 2019. ■ Do you know about an enemy property house? This is what we call a Japanese-style house that was owned by Japan during the Japanese colonial period. It means a house that was the property of the enemy. Historically, it is an enemy property house, and architecturally, it is a Japanese-style house. The two perspectives on one house are very different. How did the enemy property houses during the Japanese colonial period change the houses of our country? Japanese architect Sachiko Yoneda and Korean architect Hyungnam Lim visit the enemy property houses in Gunsan and Incheon together and meet the people who live there. ■ The feelings of two Korean and Japanese architects regarding the enemy property houses “I thought they were Japanese-style houses. But when everyone said they were enemy property houses, I found out that they were houses that were on enemy property. It was complicated because it implied that Japan was a colony.” – Japanese architect Sachiko Yoneda “It wasn’t a house we wanted to build, but a house that the Japanese forcibly transplanted. Because of that history, my feelings were complicated.” – Korean architect Hyungnam Lim ■ How did confiscated houses change our homes? Colonialism wasn’t just about political control. Japan’s housing culture was transplanted in earnest to our country, where Hanok was everything. Straight eaves lines, narrow and long hallways, two-story houses, and Japanese-style houses were unfamiliar and strange houses. A building in Incheon shows a transitional housing form between Hanok and Western-style houses. This house, built on top of a Hanok built in 1919, has Hanok beams used in a Japanese-style commercial building built in 1930, and a mixture of Hanok and Japanese-style houses. Although it is crude, the reason many architects pay attention to this house is because of its transitional housing form between Hanok and Western-style houses. There are also traces of Joseon carpenters who seem to have learned techniques from Japanese carpenters here and there. ■ Turning a confiscated house into a house of history (Toda Ikoku and Ryu Eun-gyu) In Gwandong, Jung-gu, Incheon, there is a Japanese-style row house called Nagaya. It has a unique structure where several houses are connected to a single beam. This is the couple Toda Ikoku and Ryu Eun-gyu who run a gallery here. They received many protests when they found out that they were Japanese and did not know the meaning of a confiscated house. For the past six years, the couple has been regularly holding exhibitions related to the Japanese invasion and the anti-Japanese independence movement. They are making it a historical house that helps people understand the history of Korea-Japan relations, not a confiscated house. It deals with the transplanted history of confiscated houses that came to Korea during the Japanese colonial period and the changes in Korean houses since then. ✔ Program name: Architectural Exploration House - Stranger: House, Living in a confiscated house ✔ Broadcast date: 2019.06.04 00:00:00 A strange Korean house mixed with Japanese style 00:14:30 A Japanese-style row house that made me sign the contract as soon as I saw it