Bukchon Hanok Village (Korean: 북촌한옥마을) is a residential neighborhood in Jongno District, Seoul, South Korea.

As of January 2025[update], visitors that aren't staying in guesthouses in the area can only enter between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. and are asked to be considerate of people living in the homes.

[2] Artisan businesses like Kum Bak Yeon, which works with gold leaf on clothing, are found in some of these.

[7] The area was traditionally the residential quarter of high-ranking government officials and nobility during the Joseon period; a family register in 1906 recorded that 43.6% of its population were such people.

[1] Many notable figures of the late Joseon and Korean Empire periods resided in large houses in the area,[8] including Pak Yŏnghyo and Kim Okkyun.

In addition, around the 1920s, an increasing number of Japanese settlers began acquiring land from and displacing Koreans in the Bukchon area.

[10][1][8] Korean real estate developer Chŏng Segwŏn [ko] was responsible for much of the current Bukchon Hanok Village.

According to Chŏng's descendents, he intentionally focused on redeveloping the Bukchon area in order to prevent it from being taken over by Japanese people.

[11] According to Chŏng's daughter, he intentionally built hanok instead of Japanese-style buildings, despite pressure from the colonial government.

He was eventually punished after the 1942 Korean Language Society incident; he was tortured[11] and much of his property was confiscated by the colonial government.

However, after the village was featured in television programs, such as 2 Days & 1 Night and Personal Taste, the number rose to 318,000 in 2010.