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(1)Yangdong Village in Gyeongju, known as the largest cluster village in Korea
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(3)600-year-old houses are famous for their original appearance
(4)But if you look up, it’s a little different
(5)The roof is covered with tents and vinyl, as if leaning old clothes
(6)Water leaks when it rains
(7)We’ve got an emergency on the old roof
(8)I looked in the room and found black mold
(9)The inside of the roof is down
(10)Still, nearly 300 residents of Yangdong Village
(11)You can’t fix the roof at will
(12)The entire village was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010
(13)If you want to repair a house in a designated place
(14)I need permission from the Cultural Heritage Administration
(15)To protect the old look, the tile-roofed house is a tiled roof
(16)Thatched houses can only be repaired with thatched roofs
(17)But thatched houses require a new roof every year
(18)In summer, all kinds of bugs are infested
(19)You need to spray pesticides from time to time
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(1)Yoon Jeom-seon, a resident of Yangdong Village
(2)”Look over there, too
(3)”How can an old man cover that every year?”
(4)Lee Seokjin, a resident of Yangdong Village
(5)”I didn’t use pesticides 5 years ago, so I tried Norinjae
(6)These bugs come out so dark that you can’t see the wall…”
(7)Some tile-roofed houses that were renovated during the Saemaul Movement in the 1960s
(8)Another problem is that it’s a thatched house on paper
(9)This is a tile-roofed house, but if you look closely
(10)It’s not a traditional bone tile, but a flat one
(11)It’s not a traditional style, so if you repair it
(12)According to the guidelines of the Cultural Heritage Administration, it should be changed to thatched roof
(13)Kim Gap-yang-dong Village Residents’ Order
(14)”I was going to use roof tiles, but they said it’s
(15)”There should be candles in a folk village”
(16)UNESCO has been a place where people have lived for hundreds of years
(17)I appreciated your life in this town
(18)Recently, more and more people are leaving town
(19)It’s a 300-year-old thatched house
(20)The door is so small that it’s hard for a person to enter
(21)They say this is the bathroom
(22)The soil is all down, so I fixed it with an iron pipe
(23)As it became difficult to repair, the owner of the house said
(24)I started living in my apartment
(25)Lee Dong-hak, a resident of Yangdong Village
(26)”Everything is out
(27)”If you tell me to live in a place like this, I won’t live.”
(28)The Cultural Heritage Administration will help you preserve the village while living in person
(29)I said I’d improve the system
(30)Residents are afraid it will become a deserted village in years
(31)When Yangdong Village was registered as a UNESCO Heritage Site
(32)The reason I got a high score
(33)It’s because descendants still live here
(34)The thatched roof, as it was
(35)It’s important to preserve it
(36)I think we need to think about coexistence with the people who are left
The house is old and needs to be repaired, but it has to be approved by the Cultural Heritage Administration, and it can’t be done as it pleases
I’d rather live in an apartment than live in a house full of bugs and rain that’s hundreds of years old