Documents about The Life of Joseon's carpenter Bae Heehan, The saw of the Joseon Dynasty has gotten rusty, dictates wood procurement section.

Abstract

This paper introduces the wood procurement in the autobiography of Bae Heehan (1907-1997), The saw of the Joseon Dynasty has gotten rusty. He is the last generation to know about the architectural work of palaces and temples in the Joseon era. Pine wood is the predominant timber used in the construction of palaces, upper-class residences, and other top-quality buildings in Korea. The oral history presented here describes logging of pine trees that are regarded as the best building timber in Korea and how they are transported in the form of rafts from the 1920s to 1980s. It also tells how the transported logs are milled into timbers in detail from the perspective of a carpenter.