The typical similarities and differences in terms of housing in traditional Korean culture and traditional Vietnamese culture

Abstract

Housing is a cultural achievement in terms of human response to nature. It has a long history of development with the formation and development of human society from prehistoric to modern. Houses are not built from base, from columns but from lifestyles and concepts of life. Therefore, in the basic structure of the organizational culture of material life, housing is one of the three “food – housing – clothes” which deeply absorbed cultural features of the subject. This paper compares the typical similarities and differences in housing in the sequence of the comparative study of the organizational culture of material life of Korean culture and of Vietnamese culture in traditional times.