Bang (Korean)

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::summary Korean word meaning "room" ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/KoreanGalleryBritishMuseum3.jpg" caption="Traditional Korean ''sarangbang'' (study room). Interior, in the [[British Museum Department of Asia]]."] ::

Bang () is a Korean word meaning "room". In a traditional Korean house, a sarangbang is the study or drawing room, for example.

In modern Korea (especially in the South), the concept of a bang has expanded and diversified from being merely a walled segment in a domestic space, to including buildings or enterprises in commercial, urban, space, such as a PC bang (an internet café), a noraebang (a karaoke room), sojubang (a soju room, i.e. a pub), manhwabang (a manhwa room, where people read or borrow manhwa) and a jjimjilbang (elaborate Korean public bathhouse). This can be compared with the similar expansion of the concept of a "house" to include upper houses, opera houses, coffee houses, and publishing houses.

Phonetically more tensed word ppang () is used as an abbreviation of a noun gambang (), meaning "jail".

Multibang

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/Multiroom_with_many_electronic_devices_2014-06-15_22-49.jpg" caption="A ''multibang''"] ::

Multibang is a kind of entertainment venue in South Korea where people can play video games and board games. In addition, they can eat snacks, drink non-alcoholic beverages, sing, and watch films.

Notes

References

• {{cite web| accessdate=2005-06-16| url=http://www.korean-pavilion.or.kr/04pavilion/e_2004_02.htm| author=| title=City of the Bang| work=Ninth Architecture Biennial of Venice 2004| archive-date=2004-12-17| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041217184442/http://www.korean-pavilion.or.kr/04pavilion/e_2004_02.htm| url-status=dead}}
• {{cite web |accessdate = 2005-06-16 |url = http://justahakwon.com/english/korea_bang.asp |title = "Bang" Culture |work = Just a Hakwon |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050427010217/http://www.justahakwon.com/english/korea_bang.asp |archive-date = 2005-04-27 |url-status = dead
• {{cite web|accessdate=2005-06-16| url=http://www.asien-zuhause.ch/Korea_Allgemein/Sarangbang.htm| author=Roman and Daniela Jost| title=Sarangbang (Sarang-bang, Sarang Chae, Anchae) Korean Men's and women's quarters | work=Traditional Korean and Japanese furniture}}
• {{cite web |accessdate=2005-06-16 |url=http://www.koreanfolk.co.kr/folk/english/03/b10.htm |title=Korean Housing |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050206065511/http://www.koreanfolk.co.kr/folk/english/03/b10.htm |archivedate=2005-02-06 |url-status=live

References

1. S Kwaak, Jeyup. (19 July 2011). "Evolution of Korean 'bang' culture".

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