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    Ondol (ON-dol; /ˈɒn.dɒl/, Korean: 온돌; Hanja: 溫突/溫堗; Korean pronunciation: [on.dol]) or gudeul (구들; Korean pronunciation: [ku.dɯl]) in Korean traditional...
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    falling. Traditional Korean Houses Hanok is wooden house consisting of ondol, maru, bueok, and madang. Depending on the roof material, there are several...
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    traditionally used ondol to provide floor heating on similar principles as the hypocaust, drawing smoke from a wood fire typically used for cooking. Ondol heating...
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    that's called ondol, referring to the traditional ondol heating system. In fact, Korean people refer to any domestic heating system as ondol. Technically...
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    smoke. Entire rooms would be built on the furnace flue to create ondol floored rooms. Ondol had traditionally been used as a living space for sitting, eating...
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  • (조개 속에서 나온 여자The Woman Who Came Out of a Shell) in Ondol yahwa (온돌야화 Late Night Tales Told on Ondol Floors), which is a Japanese-language collection of...
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  • ripening fruit within an artificially heated environment, by utilizing ondol, the traditional Korean underfloor heating system, to maintain heat and...
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    kitchen towel. The drained flowers are covered with hanji and dried in an ondol (floor-heated) room. When served, three to four flowers are added to hot...
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    of the house was extended relative to early houses. Iron Age hanok had Ondol (온돌, 溫堗), and also used giwa (기와), a kind of roofing tile which was made...
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    cooking. It is also a part of the traditional floor heating system, or ondol. The flat cooktop counter or hearth installed over the agungi is called...
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    bracket system characterized by thatched roofs and heated floors called ondol. People of the upper classes built bigger houses with elegantly curved tiled...
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    serves to heat the house, through a radiant underfloor heating system called ondol. Introduced to Korea from Japan in the 1920s, yeontan rose in popularity...
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    concrete base referred to as ondol, which has hot water pipes going through it; the presence of the 1.2-metre-thick (4 ft) ondol greatly increased the weight...
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    China and used a single-flue system like the Roman hypocaust and the Korean ondol. An example was unearthed among 1st-century building remains in Heilongjiang...
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    building or on other floors there are unisex areas, usually with a snack bar, ondol-heated floor for lounging and sleeping, wide-screen TVs, exercise rooms...
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    other plants in the winter. The Korean design adds an ondol system to the structure. An ondol is a Korean heating system used in domestic spaces, which...
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    system) Heater (types of heaters) Hypocaust Kang bed-stove Psychrometrics Ondol Renewable heat Underfloor air distribution Bean, R., Olesen, B., Kim, K...
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  • Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 12 January 2017. "ondol". Oxford Dictionaries. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original...
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    moistened, shaped into a large cake, and hung up to ferment for 2‒4 weeks in an ondol room. The cake matures at a precise temperature until a mold forms. Nuruk...
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  • an officetel. Ondol heating systems were initially prohibited, but the Ministry of Territories and Oceans Decree 2010-351 permitted ondol floor heating...
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    China, encompassing construction techniques, wagon utilization, and the ondol heating system. Particularly fascinated by brick, the proponents of Bukhak...
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    are tied with rice straws to the eaves of the house, or put in the warm ondol room with rice straws, for fermentation. In Jeongwol, the first month of...
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    devices used in a similar fashion are, respectively, a Kang bed-stove and an ondol. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kotatsu. Chabudai, a short-legged...
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    heating: Agungi (Korean) Hypocaust (Greco-Roman) Kang bed-stove (Chinese) Ondol (Korean) Rocket mass heater Russian stove Fireplace Multifuel stove Woodburning...
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    culture, for example: Korean fortress, ssireum, taekkyeon, Korean dance, ondol (Goguryeo's floor heating system) and the hanbok. Remains of walled towns...
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    used a heatable brick bed made of mud and stone as a heating method called Ondol, however some sources also claim that it is more common to rely solely on...
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    South Korea: at midnight, 902 ondol heating systems and water heating failed at an apartment building near Seoul; the ondol systems were down for 19 hours...
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  • painting depicts a hunting scene and another shows an early version of an ondol heating system. The tomb was excavated in 1958. The tomb complex starts...
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    is not equipped with a heating system, these buildings are equipped with Ondols for their use in the colder months. Gyeonghoeru (경회루; 慶會樓), also known as...
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    Korean pear. Pyongyang raengmyŏn was originally eaten in homes built with ondol (traditional underfloor heating) during the cold winter, so it is also called...
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