Bundang Central Park looks like a textbook new-town landscape of lawns, paths and a pond. Deeper inside stands Sunae-dong House, with tiled roofs, a courtyard and jars—evidence that villages and farmland existed before the apartments.
A new town was not built on empty land
Bundang required land acquisition and the rearrangement of roads, homes, fields and graves. The preserved house and monuments associated with the Hansan Yi clan represent part of that earlier landscape. Their survival does not mean every former resident’s history was preserved equally.
The house is not a film set
Read the relation between inner quarters, outer spaces, kitchen, courtyard and storage rather than treating every object as original furniture. Repairs and exhibition staging occurred, and opening conditions may change. Do not peer into closed rooms or touch thresholds and stone monuments.
Walk at two speeds
Move quickly along the modern park axis, then slow down inside the compound to notice sunlight, wind and distances between domestic spaces. The view of apartment towers beyond the courtyard makes the scale of development visible. The point is not a picturesque old-versus-new photograph, but the question of which fragments a planned city chose to keep as public memory.