Ullimsanbang House

Korean name: 진도 운림산방

Jeonnam-Gwangju Special City

Ullimsanbang House in Jindo is the studio where Heo Ryeon (Sochi), a master of late Joseon Southern-school painting, painted in his later years. Visitors can see a tiled house, a thatched residence, a pond and memorial halls.

About

Ullimsanbang lies south of Jindo-eup, on the west side of Mt. Cheomchalsan near Ssanggyesa Temple. It consists of a U-shaped tiled house, a thatched residence behind it and newly built memorial halls.

In front is a five-sided pond with white water lilies, and a round island 6 m in diameter in the middle holds a crape myrtle tree. Heo Ryeon was born in Jindo in 1809, studied under the monk Choui and then Kim Jeong-hui, and returned home after Kim's death to devote himself to painting.

After being neglected for a long time, the house was restored in 1982 by Heo Geon. Reproductions of paintings by three generations of the Heo family hang in the studio, and the Sochi Memorial Hall displays their works, scholar's rocks and ceramics.

The name comes from the morning and evening mist that forms a forest of clouds among the many peaks.

Key details

Address: 315, Ullimsanbang-ro, Jindo-gun, Jeonnam-Gwangju Special Metropolitan City
Opening hours: Summer (March–October) 09:00–18:00; Winter (November–February) 09:00–17:00
Closed: Open year-round
Contact: 061-540-6262
Region: Jeonnam-Gwangju Special City

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