Gumi Park Jeonghee President Birthplace Renovated with Traditional Thatched Roof Method

Thatched Roof Reed Installation

Renovated with a Golden-Hued Roof

Gumi City in Gyeongbuk welcomes visitors with the newly renovated thatched roof of President Park Chung-hee's birthplace.

Completed Park Chung-hee Presidential History Museum.

The thatching of the roof was carried out from the 20th to the 21st. Every autumn, the old rice straw on the thatched roof is removed, and new rice straw is laid and tied using traditional methods, including weaving the ridge straw called yongmareum.

The work requires maintaining uniform and dense spacing of the straw to ensure that snow and rain flow off the roof properly. This time, the process was carried out in the order of dismantling the gunsaes and yongmareum, thatching and weaving the straw, tying the sacred straw ropes called gosasaekki, weaving the yongmareum, and installing the yeonjuk.

President Park Chung-hee's birthplace was designated as Gyeongsangbuk-do Monument No. 86 in 1993 and consists of two rooms, a kitchen, a traditional millstone room, and a stable. Around the birthplace, there are the Memorial Hall, the National Revival Hall, the Boritgogae Experience Center, and the Park Chung-hee Presidential History Museum, which opened in 2021, making it one of Gumi's representative tourist attractions.