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What's up with the floor?

Baqa

This has been bugging me ever since I watched my first historical korean drama - what's up with the floor? It looks like a plastic mat, but that can't be right, right? Aren't these dramas often shot at actual historic sites? 

Anyways, anyone know what the floor is made of? 

:D

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Kim-Park-Lee
Hmm, I hadn't yet really thought about it thoroughly, and always interpreted the floors in traditional homes as a korean kind of tatami. Tatami is japanese, and they're these straw woven mats -- do the floors you have in mind look like this? 

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I'm not sure at all, and I may be making a huge country confusion... Never had really paid attention, though I will next time! ;^)
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Fira
I'm guessing you've seen a paper floor? They tend to be oiled/polished which makes that shiny look. A room with ondol heating would have that, since the floor underneath is made of stone and clay and, well, bare stone floors aren't the greatest for living areas.
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Baqa
It's not tatami mats. I haven't seen much of those in korean dramas from what I can remember. Think that's more of a japanese thing.

Haven't seen paper floors before. Will investigate :D

Thanks for your replies.
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